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The Latest Azure HPC-optimized VMs are Now Generally Available on the Rescale Platform
Rescale is pleased to announce the general availability of Azure HB (Rescale Amber) and HC (Rescale Carbon), as well as early access availability of HBv2 (Rescale Amber v2) virtual machines (VMs) across different global regions.The H-series virtual machines are the latest HPC offerings on Azure. HBv2 VMs feature 120 AMD EPYC™ 7002-series CPU cores, 480…
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Don’t let “uncertain times” blind you to certainties
The global pandemic has dramatically impacted nearly all industries and markets around the world. For a year that started with immense optimism, 2020 growth has been all but stunted for many sectors, perhaps most visible in aviation and aerospace. Charging into the new decade, innovators touted roadmaps for autonomous, supersonic, and space-faring aircrafts with commitments…
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Separation Anxiety: I’m Away From My Cluster
Distractions, noise, kids, interruptions. All part of the modern experience it would seem. Here at Rescale, like others, we have been stuck working from home for 67 days and counting. There are a million reasons it might be challenging. However, we feel strongly that access to your cluster and the software licenses you need to…
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2020, the ultimate test of business flexibility
How does a company pivot from manufacturing vehicles (Tesla) to ventilators, or from personal computers (Apple) to personal protective equipment (PPE)? Many firms across a spectrum of industries have answered the call to pivot from their existing business models to focus on solutions that combat COVID-19 in some form. For some, this means completely retooling…
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Rescale Partners with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure to Accelerate the Race for COVID-19 Vaccine with Cloud Supercomputers for Researchers
High performance computing resources immediately available at no cost to engineers, scientists, and researchers fighting the novel coronavirus SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2020 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, in cooperation with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, announced a new program today that immediately offers high performance computing resources (HPC) at no…
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Rescale Message From the CEO: COVID-19
The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected all of our daily lives. Rescale is committed to the health and safety of our employees, customers, partners, and the broader community. We are following the recommendations of both the WHO and CDC, as well as local authorities in limiting the travel and physical interactions of our employees. First,…
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Calling All COVID-19 Researchers: We Want to Help
As COVID-19 spreads, researchers, engineers and scientists are in a race against time. That is where supercomputers come in. These near-unlimited compute resources speed up simulations and calculations: the more compute power you have, the more time you can save. Historically, supercomputers have traditionally been limited to people who are physically close by. But as…
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Platform updates and Software Release notes March
March 2020Contents1 March 20202 February 2020 Few in number, big in punch this month as Rescale’s HPC and application team converts fully to WFH. We’re excited to add these codes to our platform: ANSYS 2020.R1 – Major release this month! Rescale is proud to offer ANSYS in its latest iteration, 2020 R1, which offers users…
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The Future of Innovation Powered by Big Compute
Joris Poort, CEO of Rescale, recently spoke at Big Compute 20, where he discussed how some of the greatest applied science innovations are just around the corner if we courageously embrace the power of big compute. From supersonic jets to building personalized medicine to solving the sustainability energy crisis, he encourages us to build the…
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Fireside Chat with Sam Altman
Rescale, alongside sponsors AWS, Intel, Microsoft, Google Cloud, ANSYS, Siemens and Convergent Science, kicked off the inaugural Big Compute conference Feb 11-12th in San Francisco. Headlining was Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and Chairman of Y Combinator, who sat down for a fireside chat with Rescale’s COO, Shawn Hansen. Transcript Shawn: Welcome, all of you.…
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Modernize your SPDM strategy with Rescale and the Cloud
Simulation environments face unique challenges: fragmented software and hardware, a large simulation data set, and a complex execution process. Data is isolated and managed using technology 10+ years old. For example, simulation data is managed on the engineering desktop, or at best, through a shared NAS relying heavily on naming conventions. Files are shared with…
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Complexity is why the Innovator has an infinite appetite for computing
This year, we’re co-founding and launching the Big Compute community, and kicking it off with a thought leadership conference in February at SFJAZZ. “What is Big Compute exactly? Is it similar to Big Data?” Well, the Big Compute community is a group of engineers and scientists to discuss techniques to solve problems that either require…
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Four Ways to Digitally Transform with HPC in the Cloud
The cloud revolution has begun, and High Performance Computing (HPC) is next. As cloud computing rapidly becomes better, faster, and cheaper than on-premises, no workload will be left untouched, and companies will need to adopt it to remain competitive over the next decade and beyond. So what is the cloud transformation in HPC? Why are on-premises…
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Rescale Unveils ScaleX Government, the First Federally Compliant HPC Cloud Service
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rescale, the leader in high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud, announced today that they are the first company to deliver a completely cloud-based HPC platform for the public sector. Rescale’s latest offering, ScaleX Government, is the only fully managed HPC service that delivers the scalability of the cloud with FedRAMP Moderate (In-Process),…
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2019 Demand for Rescale-managed Cloud HPC Exceeds All Previous Years Combined
Cloud HPC market hits mainstream with offerings from every major cloud provider, new FedRAMP security compliance, and availability of 370+ simulation applications Denver, Supercomputing 2019, November 18, 2019 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, announced today that Cloud High Performance Computing (HPC) has reached a major inflection point, with more server hours…
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Mars Colonies or Counting Ads?
“You Promised Me Mars Colonies, and Instead, I Got Facebook” said Buzz Aldrin in a MIT Technology Review article in 2012. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, added “We wanted flying cars — instead we got 140 characters.” In the article, titled “Why We Can’t Solve Big Problems,” Editor-in-chief Jason Pontin adds that critics of Silicon Valley…
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Siemens Lift-and-shift to Rescale is here, and in force
Substantial additions to Siemens SaaS on Rescale Siemens has teamed up with Rescale to expand their SaaS offering in the cloud, bringing distinct advantages to both large enterprises and smaller organizations. In this blog post we’ll look at the details of this program and the benefits provided. Substantial price decreases have arrived First, let’s look…
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Advancing Cloud Computing’s Final Frontier
Public cloud computing’s momentum is undeniable. In less than a decade, businesses went from debating whether to use public cloud, to running the majority of workloads on public cloud (58% as of 2016 according to Cisco). Cisco expects this number to jump to 73% by 2021. Repatriation to data centers (private clouds) occur but are…
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Rescale Enables Faster Time to Market for Nissan
Leading automotive company selects Rescale’s ScaleX platform on AWS to increase innovation and engineering capabilities San Francisco, CA, June 12, 2019 – Rescale, the leader in enterprise big compute in the cloud, today announced that Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. selected Rescale and AWS to extend its fixed on-premise high performance computing (HPC) systems to the…
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Big Compute Podcast : HPC and Diversity: Life lessons from Irene Qualters
In this Big Compute Podcast episode Gabriel Broner interviews Irene Qualters about her career and the evolution of HPC. Irene, an HPC pioneer, went from being a young, inexperienced female engineer working with Seymour Cray to becoming president of Cray Research. After 20 years at Cray Research she decided it was time for a change…