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Open/Closed and the Single Responsibility Principle
The SOLID principles of object-oriented design provide good guidelines for writing code that is easy to change, but for some of the principles, the motivation and value can be difficult to understand. Open/Closed is particularly vexing: software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification What does it mean…
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New HPC Capabilities for the Enterprise – CEO Looks Forward to 2015
Looking forward to 2015, we have some exciting new updates in the works here at Rescale. Primarily based on customer feedback and alignment with our long term roadmap, you can expect some major updates in the following areas: New Hardware & Lower PricesWe already have a great selection of hardware configurations at various competitive price…
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The Real Cost of High Performance Computing
The cost of buying HPC equipment is around 1/3 of the true cost of owning an HPC. Yes, that is true and everyone needs to understand that before they make a cost comparison to Rescale pricing.When I speak to customers inevitably there is a comparison to the cost of an internal HPC to Rescale. It…
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Which One to Worry About? Ebola vs. Influenza
Lately, news from West Africa is almost always on Ebola. This is not a new problem, however, this historical Ebola epidemic continues to have a significant impact in the region. At the very least, you will see what looks like a tree with sparkling lights (see the videos below). In actuality, the following is an…
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Rescale: 2014 in Review
Team 2014 was a year of immense growth and development for Rescale. Our team expanded with the addition of several new members, including, Engineer: Mairi Macdonald, Hiraku Nakamura, Alex Kudlick, Mark Whitney, and Kenneth Chung, Operations Manager: Sarah Dietz, VP of Sales: Tony Spagnuolo, and VP of Marketing and Corporate Development: Shing Pan. Platform This…
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Leveraging Static Typing to Manage Object State
There has been a lot of talk in the software engineering world about the pains associated with OOP and specifically mutable state. Side-effect free Functional Programming is often touted as a solution. While there are some salient points on mutability, the real issues arise from naive use of implicitly mutable objects. If done properly, mutable state…
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Convergent Science and Rescale Team Up to Simulate the Manning "Wobbly" Pass
Every Sunday, Monday, and Thursday millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite players throwing the pigskin down the field. Tensions and emotions rise and fall with each play, game, and season. No doubt if you’re a Peyton Manning fan you have felt these ups and downs, along with a few “What kind of…
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Accessing On-Premise Licence Servers
One of the common challenges related to running engineering simulations in the cloud is trying to leverage an existing license. Many applications will periodically connect to a license server in order to checkout license tokens. Typically, companies will have a license server running on premise, sitting behind the corporate firewall. ISVs will provision licenses that…
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Sneak Peek: Visualization on Rescale
The Challenge of Remote VisualizationContents1 The Challenge of Remote Visualization2 An Incremental Process3 A Remote Visualization Preview4 Help us improve remote visualization. We have received many requests to integrate some type of visualization solution on Rescale. At Rescale, we agree that this is an important part of some engineering work flows. However, performing visualization in…
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Quick Tip: Working Directory Snapshot
It can be useful to take periodic snapshots of the working directory for a run of your Rescale job, either for restart purposes or for additional review on your local machine. Rescale makes it easy. Starting from the Status tab available on the right side of your screen (), select the run you would like…
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Released! Walk through Rescale's New User Interface
In the previous article, I had briefly discussed the three features that would debut with the new user interface. Today, I would like to walk you through the entire job-setup process using the new UI. But before I do that, here’s a list of new features for you to skim over. Let’s set up a…
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Empowering the Consultancy Portfolio
Whether by phone, live chat, or email, Rescale gets called upon daily to respond to critical computational problems from consulting engineers whose services are employed by customers in aerospace, automotive, energy, biological sciences, consumer products, and industrial engineering, among others. Calls come in from engineers and scientists around the globe who are in need of…
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The Advantages of On-Demand Cloud Computing with a next Generation CFD Solution
Benefit directly from the advantages of our pay-per-use cloud computing partnershipContents1 Benefit directly from the advantages of our pay-per-use cloud computing partnership2 Background3 The Challenge of Traditional CFD4 What is XFlow and what makes it unique?5 HPC Support, a must for any CFD Software Rescale, Inc. and Next Limit Dynamics S.L. are pleased to announce…
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Remote Cluster Access
IntroductionContents1 Introduction2 Generating an SSH Key Pair3 Adding the SSH Public Key to your Rescale Account4 Disabling Automatic Termination of Clusters5 Logging Into a Running Cluster on Rescale Rescale has recently released additional user account job settings, which provide customers with the ability to securely connect to the remote clusters that they have provisioned in…
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Too Hot? Too Cold?
Within offices, there is a constant struggle between turning the air conditioner on or off, as well as raising or lowering the thermostat’s temperature. This makes some too warm, while others put on additional layers of clothing just to maintain their warmth. This battle over the thermostat rages on even as the seasons change! We will make Rescale…
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Rescale: Minimizing Data Challenges
When performing HPC in the cloud, one of the workflow tasks engineers and scientists have to deal with is the handling of large amounts of data. The question the engineer often has to ask is: “What data is useful to me and how can I present it in a functional form?” When all the data…
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Rescale's New User Interface: Managing Large File Sets
In the new user interface (UI), we faced a common UI challenge of letting users select a large set of files and perform a group action on those items. The first thing that jumped to our minds was to show all files with a checkbox next to each one. That proved to be problematic for three reasons:…
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Industry Perspective With SpaceX Lead Software Engineer Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones is a lead software engineer at SpaceX and former CUDA architect at NVIDIAFor this post, Stephen Jones gives his perspective on aspects of technology of great interest to Rescale’s users. As a major contributor to CUDA, many of Rescale’s users have run analyses taking advantage of his work on GPU technology, and others…
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Azure MS-MPI in a Box
One of the things that we touched upon in an earlier blog post is the relative difficulty in setting up a Microsoft MPI cluster on Windows Azure because of the HPC Pack installation requirement that the official documentation recommends. As we discovered, it is possible to manually install and configure a Microsoft MPI cluster without…
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Quick Tip: Variable Formatting in Templates
Rescale makes it easy to run a design of experiments, as previously discussed in this post. Here we will provide some quick tips on template generation so your variables are formatted to your liking.We support two methods for specifying a range of variables:1. Uploading a comma-separated values (CSV) file, where each row is a case–also…