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Rescale is Short-listed for the 2015 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
San Francisco, CA – June 2, 2015 – Rescale announced today it has been short-listed for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology companies from North America. Rescale offers industry-leading software platforms and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulations. With its…
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Plan for Unexpected Complexity or Be Overwhelmed by It
The world is incredibly complex, and nowhere is this more evident than the art of writing software. Software is the result of intricate interactions between social structures, business desires, and limited knowledge. The complexity of those interactions inevitably shows up in code structure. Our job as engineers is to manage this, and prepare our abstractions…
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IDC: Rescale Shows HPC Cloud Computing Is Coming of Age
This article is written and published by Steve Conway, Vice President of IDC Research, for IDC Link. In IDC’s worldwide studies of high performance computing (HPC) end-user sites, the proportion of sites employing cloud computing—public or private—has steadily grown from 13.8% in 2011, to 23.5% in 2013, to 34.1% in 2015. Also represented in this mix…
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Quick Tip: Compress Your Output Files
One of the key challenges with cloud HPC is minimizing the amount of data that needs to be transferred between on-premise machines and machines in the cloud. Unlike traditional on-premise systems, this transfer occurs over a much slower and less reliable Wide Area Network. As we’ve touched on previously, the best thing to do is…
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Rescale Launches ScaleX Enterprise for Turn-Key Deployment of Cloud HPC and Simulation Platform
New platform solution empowers CIOs and IT professionals to transform legacy on-premise systems into an agile HPC environment that accelerates time to market and drives product innovationSan Francisco, May 18, 2015 – Rescale, an industry leader in computer aided engineering (CAE) simulation and high performance computing (HPC), announced availability today of the innovative cloud HPC…
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CFD Tips for Running on Rescale
The way you compute computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems on Rescale is very similar to running on your local environment. Some of these tips may be obvious to those familiar with CFD but here are a few suggestions, in no particular order, for running CFD on Rescale.Garbage in, garbage out It goes without saying that…
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Quick Tip: Usage Summary and Details
We have now made it easy to not only see a summary of your current usage, but have also added the ability for you to export your detailed usage. Here’s how: While logged in to your Rescale account, click on your email address in the upper right corner, and then select Account from the menu…
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Predicting the Future of Prediction
by Clayton Grow, PE, Account EngineerConvergent Science, Inc.Mel Brooks and the Paradox of Motion “We can’t stop; it’s too dangerous; we’ve got to slow down first!” –Colonel Sandurz, in the Mel Brooks film, Spaceballs (1987) This is one of my favorite lines from the Mel Brooks screwball/sci-fi spoof film. But for the longest time,…
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Part 1: Improving AngularJS Application with Immutable.js
At Rescale, we’ve been venturing into the world of Facebook’s open source libraries with Immutable.js. Immutable.js is a library that provides immutable collections for javascript such as Set, Map, List, Stack, which are not available in ECMAScript 5. We found that these data structures improved the readability and sometimes the performance of our code (read on…
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Cost Comparison: Prepaid vs. On Demand
Rescale offers several price options for running your HPC simulations: On Demand, Low Priority, and Prepaid. This article will show an analysis of compute usage to determine when getting a prepaid plan makes sense from a cost standpoint. Our Prepaid price plan provides a long term reservation for Rescale cores at the lowest cost per…
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Deploying Cloud HPC in the Enterprise
Implementing hybrid and pure-play cloud based HPC in order to maintain a competitive edge has become essential for organizations. In an interview with CIO Review, Joris Poort, CEO of Rescale Inc. gives his views on the industry dynamics driving the CIOs and IT professionals to shift from deploying on-premise HPC clusters to an agile IT…
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Rescale Selected by CIO Review for 20 Most Promising HPC Solution Providers 2015
San Francisco, CA – March 19, 2015 – Rescale, a leader in computer aided engineering (CAE) simulation and high performance computing (HPC), has been named by CIO Review (www.cioreview.com) as one of 20 Most Promising HPC Solution Providers in 2015. The leading position of Rescale is based on evaluations of Rescale’s products for HPC simulation…
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Pitfalls of the Headless HPC Environment
IntroductionWhen running HPC on Rescale, or in any traditional HPC environment for that matter, it is essential that the solver can be run in a headless environment. What that means in practice is that ISVs have made sure that their solvers can be run in batch mode using simple (or not so simple) command-line instructions.…
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Nickel or Iron: Which Is Better for Your CONVERGE™ Job on Rescale's Platform?
CONVERGE™ from Convergent Science is one of the most popular computational fluid design (CFD) simulation programs in the field of engine design and simulation. Its parallel processing feature leverages MPI which effectively increase the job running speed in the multicore and many core environment. You can run CONVERGE™ jobs on demand on Rescale’s cloud simulation…
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The End of the On-Premise HPC
For a CIO, the ultimate goal is creating a lean and agile IT structure that both meets the current and unanticipated future needs of the various internal teams–without creating a cost structure that is unsustainable or disconnected from justifiable activities. Properly allocating resources within the company without wasted expenditure or unmet requirements is the true…
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API Versioning with the Django Rest Framework
A quick Google search for “REST API versioning” turns up lots of discussion around how a version should be specified in the request. There is no shortage of passionate debate around RESTful principles and the pros and cons of whether embedding version numbers in urls, using custom request headers, or leveraging the existing accept header…
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Imperative Creep in React
React is a declarative framework that allows us to describe how our components should look at any given point in time and will manage all the UI updates when the underlying data changes. If we follow best practices for managing state, such as keeping around only the minimal set of state needed for the UI and…
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MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies Signs a Channel Partner Agreement with Rescale
MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies has recently signed a Channel Partner agreement with Rescale, a leading cloud simulation provider offering a high performance computing platform for engineering and scientific simulations. Under the agreement, MAYA will become a sales representative for Rescale’s offering of Siemens PLM Software’s NX™ Nastran® based on their Software as a Service (Saas)…
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Automate and Visualize Results of Your Simulations Using Gnuplot on Rescale
BackgroundMany engineers tasked with running HPC applications are usually intent on monitoring their simulations to ensure the computation is progressing as expected, determine when the solution error is below typical engineering error thresholds, or verify the integrity of the physical phenomena they are simulating. While most commercial applications offer some form of visualizing or plotting…
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Rescale Releases New, Lower HPC Hardware Pricing
February 2, 2015 – San Francisco, CA. Today, Rescale releases lower pricing across its high performance computing (HPC) cloud hardware. This price change will be effective immediately for all customers. The cloud simulation platform provider has dropped prices on average by 40% and now offers increased accessibility to budget-restricted projects – while maintaining its position as…