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Big Compute Podcast – New Architectures for HPC
In this Big Compute podcast episode, host Gabriel Broner interviews Mike Woodacre, HPE Fellow, to discuss the shift from CPUs to an emerging diversity of architectures. Hear about the evolution of CPUs, the advent of GPUs with increasing data parallelism, memory driven computing, and the potential benefits of a cloud environment with access to multiple…
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Finally, Hard Numbers for How Much HPC is Worth
Here at Rescale, we care very much about the cost and value of HPC. It was a major topic in our previous blog post “Addressing the Cloud Cynic.” So, we thought we’d back up some of our claims with the cliff notes from a key analyst’s study. In June 2018, Hyperion Research updated their global…
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HPC planning for 2019: Increase your engineering productivity
Engineers face many daily operational inefficiencies that inhibit their time-to-solution. Every day we work with engineers to provide solutions to computing resource limitations and management of HPC. Specifically, we excel at utilizing our platform to accelerate HPC engineering simulations. The impact is real: Rescale users have seen accelerated time-to-solution by 23%, allowing engineering teams to…
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Why TCO Doesn’t {Quite} Work for Comparing On-Premise and Cloud-Enabled HPC
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a powerful financial tool that allows you to understand the direct and indirect expenses related to an asset, such as your HPC system. Calculating the TCO for an on-premise HPC system is direct: add up all expenses related to your system and its management for the entirety of its deployment. But…
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The Ugly, Hidden and Underestimated Costs of Building an On-Premise HPC System
Depending on your current and future HPC and organizational demands, each system offers benefits and limitations that need to be defined and compared. One of the main comparisons between systems is usually the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). As I mentioned in a previous blog post, TCO not exactly a good fit for making buying decisions…
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Rescale Saves H.F. Lenz Company Days of Compute Time
H.F. Lenz Company, a full-service engineering, and advanced analytics firm found impressive turnaround time for complex, compute-intensive simulations using 6SigmaRoom and Rescale’s ScaleX platform. A computation that normally takes days was reduced to a matter of hours. Check out the entire story here: https://bit.ly/2yJ6rj6
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AGC unleashes potential with HPC in the Cloud
AGC is one of the world’s largest glass and ceramics producers. Background and Challenges Founded in 1907, AGC is the global leader in glass, ceramic, chemicals and electronics materials manufacturing. Operating 210 companies globally, today AGC complements its core materials business with a focus on strategic industries such as mobility, electronics and life sciences. AGC…
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Addressing the Cloud Cynic
The Greek philosopher Diogenes kept dogs that served as emblems of his cynic philosophy. San Francisco, Calif., October 1, 2018 – I believe balance should be a welcomed philosophy for most (if not all) areas of life. Whether in business, or personal life, seeking balance can give us a deeper understanding of the true complexity of problems.…
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Higher Performance for Higher Ed: Rescale for Academia, Research and Government
SummaryRescale offers a platform that enables government, research and academic institutions to utilize and leverage high performance computing on-premise, in the cloud and across multiple HPC centers. Users are presented with a single unified portal to submit jobs to systems on-premise, to multiple cloud providers or across HPC centers. Administrators are able to manage users,…
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A Sneak Peek at Rescale’s Product Roadmap for 2018 – Part 2
We recently shared with you part 1 of our roadmap, covering new and improved features in the areas of cloud robustness, application software, and licensing. This blog post will go over the rest of our 2018 product roadmap, covering development in the areas of desktop and visualization, HPC workflows, enterprise organization administration, security and compliance,…
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A Sneak Peek at Rescale’s Product Roadmap for 2018 – Part 1
As we move into 2018, here at Rescale we’re excited to keep our momentum as one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing enterprise software companies, and more specifically keep advancing the state of the art for HPC in the cloud.Our product team was busy in 2017. Last year we added the following to our platform: 25 new…
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NVIDIA Tesla V100 Benchmark Results on Rescale
Rescale just added NVIDIA’s newest, most advanced GPU, the Tesla V100, to the ScaleX platform. This is NVIDIA’s first GPU based on the latest Volta architecture. Starting November 13, 2017, all platform users are able to select the V100s as part of the ScaleX standard batch workflow. Optimized for Deep Learning Rescale’s V100-powered systems come…
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Building a Digital Twin? Consider a Vendor-Agnostic HPC Cloud
This article originally appeared on ENGINEERING.com. To see the full article, click here. The concept of the digital twin brings versatility to the engineering world. By creating a virtual representation of a product, engineers can investigate designs to further product development, in-service optimizations, and quality assurance. Now with the implementation of the Internet of Things…
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Tackling Big Epidemics with Big Compute
Guest post by Kierste Miller, Data Scientist at Metabiota At Metabiota, we are fascinated by infectious diseases and the way they spread. Epidemics pose an immense risk to the entire globe; however, they are notoriously challenging to forecast and monitor. Our team produces epidemic risk models for the insurance, commercial and government sectors to help…
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Will HPC Move to the Cloud? Video Interview with Gabriel Broner
Watch this interview with Rescale’s VP of High Performance Computing, Gabriel Broner, as he discusses the evolution of the HPC industry, the benefits of the cloud, and the future of HPC. Gabriel Broner is the VP & General Manager of High Performance Computing at Rescale. With 25 years of experience in the industry, Gabriel has…
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Understanding How an Engineer Thinks
When software engineers look at a piece of code, the first question they ask themselves is “what is it doing?” The next question is “why is it doing it?” In fact, there is a deep connection between these two – why becomes what at the next level of abstraction. That is, what and why are…
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Why Formula One CFD Simulations Should Go with a Unified Cloud HPC Platform
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) released the latest version of sporting and technical regulations for 2017 Formula One Grand Prix on April 29, 2016. This document is the rulebook that all Formula One racing teams must follow in the 2017 season. All of the restrictions of CFD simulations are clearly defined in Appendix 8…
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Cloud: The Next Disruption in HPC
In 1991, I joined Cray and had the opportunity to work on the machines Seymour Cray designed. I was working on the operating system and would often have to work alone on it at night, but the excitement of working on such unique systems kept me going. The Cray 1, XMP, YMP, represented a family…
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What if Airport Security Were More Like On-Premise HPC?
Why high utilization doesn’t work for TSA and why it doesn’t work for HPC Executive Summary: In the case of big compute power, the purchase of large capital assets can create an organizational misalignment of incentives that places the needs of the end user last Achieving high utilization rates of on-premise computing is a pyrrhic…
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3 Ways IBM Bluemix and Rescale Unlock Cloud HPC
By Jerry Gutierrez, Global HPC Solution Leader, Bluemix Infrastructure (SoftLayer), IBM Cloud & Tyler Smith, Head of Partnerships, Rescale IBM Bluemix offers our customers an impressive array of leading high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, including bare metal servers and the latest GPUs, on an hourly basis to customers all over the world. But as HPC technology…