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Security and Compliance: Rescale's Independent External Audit
The security of customers’ information is of utmost importance to Rescale. While many of the steps we take to protect customers’ information are outlined on our Security page, new customers may have doubts about the effectiveness of the systems and controls we provide to protect their data. That’s where a trusted third-party can provide some reassurance.…
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Scaling PageRank with R on Rescale
With the proliferation of data driven applications over last few years, many applications have come to rely on advanced analyses of huge data sets. While MapReduce based frameworks, such as Hadoop, make it easier to scale your algorithms to big data sets, their restrictive programming framework makes it challenging to fit your existing computations to…
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Rescale Announces Technology Partnership with MSC Software
San Francisco, CA – Rescale is pleased to announce they have recently joined MSC Software’s Technology Partner Program. Rescale has certified the compatibility of three key MSC Software tools with Rescale’s cloud engineering platform: the multi-body dynamics simulation tool, Adams; the advanced nonlinear & multi-physics package, Marc, and structural & multidiscipline solver, MSC Nastran. “The…
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Looking Forward to 2014
Here at Rescale, we’ve had an excellent year in 2013 and are looking forward to another great year ahead. Below are some of the highlights on what we accomplished this past year, and quick preview of what’s to come in 2014! SecurityWe are always focused on making sure Rescale complies and adheres to the highest…
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Holiday Greetings from Rescale
Located in the heart of fast-paced technology and budding entrepreneurial endeavors, Rescale too saw big changes and movement throughout 2013. Over the course of the year, Rescale expanded its staff to welcome the addition of the following, Software Engineer: Daniel Bruce, Amey Chaugule, Mike Leung, Irwen Song; Senior Engineer: Zachary Davis; Business Development Manager: Ilea…
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Government Agencies Moving to the Cloud
At Rescale, we are excited to work with government agencies in the area of high-performance computing applications. In recent years, the government has shifted its approach to IT infrastructure management in favor of cloud computing, indicating that a number of concerns about the cloud are no longer seen as issues. According to the U.S. Federal…
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Rescale Attends Largest Oil and Gas Technical Conference
Last month Rescale attended the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), the largest technical conference in the field of oil and gas exploration and production (E&P). This year it was held in New Orleans, LA from September 30th through October 2nd. The SPE ATCE encompasses all technological aspects of oil…
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Oil and Gas: Acoustic Emissions Analysis in Drilling Scenarios
The large and demanding oil and gas field requires massive, computationally-intensive simulations for everything from reservoir modeling to drilling application to natural gas extraction. Additional factors including seismic stability, weather patterns, and acoustic emissions also contribute to the complexity of oil and gas analyses. Running complex simulations are essential to production, however, these analyses are…
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Thoughts from the ISC Cloud '13 Conference
I served as a panelist at the ISC Cloud’13 Conference, held this year in Heidelberg, Germany on September 23rd and 24th. Attendees included representatives from large manufacturers (HP, Intel, etc.), CAE software vendors (ANSYS, Simulia, etc.), large organizations and HPC end users (Ford, CERN, various universities), and of course, cloud simulation providers like Rescale. The…
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Design Optimization of an Airfoil Using Stanford University Software SU2
Stanford University Unstructured (SU2) is an open-source set of tools written in the C++ programming language. Designed to numerically solve problems involving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), it is uniquely suited for PDE-constrained optimization problems. While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and aerodynamic shape optimization were influential in driving early development of the code, it has also…
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Data Management in Engineering Simulations
As we noted in an earlier blog post about our Cloning feature, engineers and scientists spend significant time managing their simulation data. This is a problem because it interrupts their focus on product development and hinders progress in creating the best conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs possible. At its core, building great products requires a…
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ReUP Simulation Research Grant Winners
San Francisco, CA – Monday, September 9th marked the submission deadline for the first annual Rescale University Program (ReUP) Simulation Research Grant competition. The competition was created to enable engineering and science researchers at universities around the world to run their simulations with ease using high-performance cloud computing. Applicants were required to submit a short…
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Rescale Announces Strategic and Technology Partnership with Convergent Science, Inc.
San Francisco, CA – Rescale and Convergent Science are pleased to announce a strategic and technology partnership that will provide users of CONVERGE™ CFD software the ability to run their simulations in the cloud with pay-per-use pricing using Rescale’s end-to-end, web-based simulation platform. In conjunction with the partnership, Convergent Science is also introducing CONVERGE™ in…
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Rescale Case Study: Bombardier Aerospace
Recently, we completed a Rescale project with an aerodynamicist at Bombardier Aerospace. With more than 35,500 employees and a leadership position in global markets, Bombardier Aerospace designs, manufactures and supports innovative aviation products for the business, commercial, specialized, and amphibious aircraft markets. The Aerospace Simulation Project This project was conducted to demonstrate that industrial-scale simulation…
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Rescale Announces Partnership with Vanderplaats Research & Development, Inc. (VR&D)
San Francisco, CA – Rescale and VR&D are announcing a strategic partnership to provide users of VR&D’s design optimization software suite the ability to run their analyses in the cloud using Rescale’s end-to-end, web-based platform. “VR&D is a globally recognized leader in design optimization technologies. As a technology partner, we look forward to helping their…
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Cloud Simulation Security Q&A with Rescale
One of the first questions I get from every prospective Rescale customer is about security in the cloud, and rightfully so. Data security in the cloud is a big deal. Our customers work with highly technical, highly proprietary data. At Rescale, protecting the confidentiality and security of customer data at all times is our highest priority. On…
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Rescale announces University Research Grant Competition
Rescale (rescale.com), through the Rescale University Program (ReUP), has established an engineering and science research grant competition, available to researchers (faculty, staff, and students) at academic institutions across the world. The grants will be awarded in the form of credits towards Rescale’s cloud simulation platform, allowing recipients to conduct compute-heavy analyses much faster than with…
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Introducing Sharing on Rescale
Project collaboration can be very time-consuming, and it’s often a difficult task to distribute assignments to colleagues. When engineers and scientists spend their time collecting and sharing files back and forth, it reduces the time they could spend on product development. This can disrupt project deadlines and lead to less than optimal designs. Sharing analyses…
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Introducing Cloning on Rescale
Engineers and scientists spend significant time managing their simulation data. This problem will only increase in coming years as engineers run larger analyses more often. Instead of spending time understanding and analyzing results, engineers and scientists are instead devoting time to organizing data.At Rescale, we believe it should be easy to edit and re-run simulations…
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Rescale Announces Strategic Partnership with Dassault Systèmes, Joins SIMULIA Alliance Ecosystem
San Francisco, CA – Rescale and Dassault Systèmes are announcing a technology partnership to provide users of SIMULIA Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) the ability to run their simulations in the cloud using Rescale’s end-to-end, web-based platform. “Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA application is a recognized leader in simulation technologies, and we are thrilled to expand our relationship…