Bring Your Own Storage (Part 1)
The Rescale platform provides end-to-end file management backed by storage offerings from the major public cloud vendors. This includes optimized client-side transfer tools as well…
The Curious Case of the Windows HTTP Proxy
The web is the preferred delivery mechanism for most applications these days but there are scenarios where you might want to build a CLI or…
Azure Linux RDMA Setup Tips
Microsoft’s announcement of Azure Linux RDMA support last year was great news for those looking to run tightly coupled HPC workloads in the cloud. Unfortunately,…
Getting started with MS-MPI on Azure
It has been about a year and a half since we released a reusable Azure Cloud Service for provisioning a simple Windows MS-MPI cluster without…
How To: Use the Rescale Transfer Manager
The Rescale Transfer Manager is a native Windows application that can be used to download output files from jobs. This is a more robust and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lightweight Azure InfiniBand Cluster Setup
One of the key criticisms leveled against HPC in the cloud is the relatively slow interconnect speed between nodes when compared to on-premise clusters. While…
MPI Latency on Google Compute Engine
Google has officially thrown its gauntlet into the IaaS cloud computing ring by opening up access to the Google Compute Engine (GCE) service to the…