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Rescale and CTC Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Cloud HPC Platform in Japan
Consolidated simulation environment allows Japanese enterprise companies to drastically reduce analysis time and access 100+ simulation software ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Satoshi Kikuchi, President & CEO; hereinafter “CTC”) has formed a strategic partnership Rescale, Inc. (headquartered in California, United States; Founder & CEO; Joris Poort) to become a reseller of Rescale’s cloud…
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Tutorial: Manage Groups and Projects on the Rescale Enterprise Portal
Rescale’s ScaleX Enterprise Portal allows administrators to have fine-grained control over the their members’ spending on the ScaleX platform by setting up Groups and Projects. In this post we’ll explain what these concepts are and how to use them. Groups on the ScaleX platform are groups of members – they are useful mainly for their…
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Rescale Announces Launch of Europe Region Cloud HPC Platform
San Francisco, August 26, 2015 – Rescale, the industry-leading simulation and high performance computing (HPC) platform provider, announced today that the Europe region simulation and HPC platforms are now publicly available. Rescale’s Europe region deployment of ScaleX Enterprise, ScaleX Pro, and ScaleX Developer provides European companies with the ability to instantly scale out their computer-aided…
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Quick Tip: Editing Input Files
It can be useful to modify input files before running a job on Rescale. You may now do so directly in the browser. On the Input Files step of an un-submitted job, you can find the edit file button under certain input files’ actions: Clicking the edit button will reveal an in-browser editor: Basic search…
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Using Database Views in Django ORM
Sometimes using database views rather than database tables can be very helpful for querying aggregated data. Typically in the Django ORM, a database table is tied to a Django ORM model, but we found it is also possible to tie a database view with a Django ORM model. By doing so, you can hide the…
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Logging into Rescale with a Microsoft Active Directory SSO Identity Provider
Rescale recently rolled out SAML Single Sign-On login support for our ScaleX Enterprise users. This post will discuss how to set up Rescale as a SAML Service Provider, using Azure Active Directory as the Identity Provider. Prerequisites to follow the tutorial below are that you have ScaleX Enterprise and Microsoft Azure accounts. SAML Background SAML…
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Rescale Presents ScaleX™ Enterprise Webinar Series: Transform IT, Empower Engineers, Unleash Innovation
San Francisco, CA – July 7th, 2015 – Rescale announces a 3-part webinar series that helps CIOs and IT professionals make a smooth transition to cloud HPC for engineering and science simulations. The webinar series will be held on three consecutive Wednesdays- July 29th, August 5th, and August 12th of 2015, at 8:00 am Pacific…
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ScaleX Enterprise: Enabling CIO’s and IT Leaders to Unleash Innovation
After two years of development and incubation, we are very excited about the launch of Rescale’s ScaleX Enterprise platform in May. This solution was built with the goal to provide IT leaders and managers with the tools to fully leverage the efficiency and financial advantages of a cloud simulation platform and HPC infrastructure. We’ve combined…
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Testing React and Flux Applications with Karma and Webpack
At Rescale, we were using the Jest framework by Facebook to test our React and Flux application. Jest is a simple-to-get-started testing framework with an API similar to that of Jasmine, but with automatic mocking of CommonJS modules baked in. However, like many developers in the open source community have noted, we’ve found that Jest…
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Rescale is Short-listed for the 2015 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
San Francisco, CA – June 2, 2015 – Rescale announced today it has been short-listed for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology companies from North America. Rescale offers industry-leading software platforms and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulations. With its…
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Plan for Unexpected Complexity or Be Overwhelmed by It
The world is incredibly complex, and nowhere is this more evident than the art of writing software. Software is the result of intricate interactions between social structures, business desires, and limited knowledge. The complexity of those interactions inevitably shows up in code structure. Our job as engineers is to manage this, and prepare our abstractions…
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IDC: Rescale Shows HPC Cloud Computing Is Coming of Age
This article is written and published by Steve Conway, Vice President of IDC Research, for IDC Link. In IDC’s worldwide studies of high performance computing (HPC) end-user sites, the proportion of sites employing cloud computing—public or private—has steadily grown from 13.8% in 2011, to 23.5% in 2013, to 34.1% in 2015. Also represented in this mix…
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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 the cloud. Unlike traditional on-premise systems, this transfer occurs over a much slower and less reliable Wide Area Network. As we’ve touched on previously, the best thing to do is…
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Rescale Launches ScaleX Enterprise for Turn-Key Deployment of Cloud HPC and Simulation Platform
New platform solution empowers CIOs and IT professionals to transform legacy on-premise systems into an agile HPC environment that accelerates time to market and drives product innovationSan Francisco, May 18, 2015 – Rescale, an industry leader in computer aided engineering (CAE) simulation and high performance computing (HPC), announced availability today of the innovative cloud HPC…
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CFD Tips for Running on Rescale
The way you compute computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems on Rescale is very similar to running on your local environment. Some of these tips may be obvious to those familiar with CFD but here are a few suggestions, in no particular order, for running CFD on Rescale.Garbage in, garbage out It goes without saying that…
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Quick Tip: Usage Summary and Details
We have now made it easy to not only see a summary of your current usage, but have also added the ability for you to export your detailed usage. Here’s how: While logged in to your Rescale account, click on your email address in the upper right corner, and then select Account from the menu…
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Predicting the Future of Prediction
by Clayton Grow, PE, Account EngineerConvergent Science, Inc.Mel Brooks and the Paradox of Motion “We can’t stop; it’s too dangerous; we’ve got to slow down first!” –Colonel Sandurz, in the Mel Brooks film, Spaceballs (1987) This is one of my favorite lines from the Mel Brooks screwball/sci-fi spoof film. But for the longest time,…
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Part 1: Improving AngularJS Application with Immutable.js
At Rescale, we’ve been venturing into the world of Facebook’s open source libraries with Immutable.js. Immutable.js is a library that provides immutable collections for javascript such as Set, Map, List, Stack, which are not available in ECMAScript 5. We found that these data structures improved the readability and sometimes the performance of our code (read on…
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Cost Comparison: Prepaid vs. On Demand
Rescale offers several price options for running your HPC simulations: On Demand, Low Priority, and Prepaid. This article will show an analysis of compute usage to determine when getting a prepaid plan makes sense from a cost standpoint. Our Prepaid price plan provides a long term reservation for Rescale cores at the lowest cost per…
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Deploying Cloud HPC in the Enterprise
Implementing hybrid and pure-play cloud based HPC in order to maintain a competitive edge has become essential for organizations. In an interview with CIO Review, Joris Poort, CEO of Rescale Inc. gives his views on the industry dynamics driving the CIOs and IT professionals to shift from deploying on-premise HPC clusters to an agile IT…