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Rescale Selected by CIO Review for 20 Most Promising HPC Solution Providers 2015
San Francisco, CA – March 19, 2015 – Rescale, a leader in computer aided engineering (CAE) simulation and high performance computing (HPC), has been named by CIO Review (www.cioreview.com) as one of 20 Most Promising HPC Solution Providers in 2015. The leading position of Rescale is based on evaluations of Rescale’s products for HPC simulation…
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Pitfalls of the Headless HPC Environment
IntroductionWhen running HPC on Rescale, or in any traditional HPC environment for that matter, it is essential that the solver can be run in a headless environment. What that means in practice is that ISVs have made sure that their solvers can be run in batch mode using simple (or not so simple) command-line instructions.…
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Nickel or Iron: Which Is Better for Your CONVERGE™ Job on Rescale's Platform?
CONVERGE™ from Convergent Science is one of the most popular computational fluid design (CFD) simulation programs in the field of engine design and simulation. Its parallel processing feature leverages MPI which effectively increase the job running speed in the multicore and many core environment. You can run CONVERGE™ jobs on demand on Rescale’s cloud simulation…
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The End of the On-Premise HPC
For a CIO, the ultimate goal is creating a lean and agile IT structure that both meets the current and unanticipated future needs of the various internal teams–without creating a cost structure that is unsustainable or disconnected from justifiable activities. Properly allocating resources within the company without wasted expenditure or unmet requirements is the true…
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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 no shortage of passionate debate around RESTful principles and the pros and cons of whether embedding version numbers in urls, using custom request headers, or leveraging the existing accept header…
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Imperative Creep in React
React is a declarative framework that allows us to describe how our components should look at any given point in time and will manage all the UI updates when the underlying data changes. If we follow best practices for managing state, such as keeping around only the minimal set of state needed for the UI and…
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MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies Signs a Channel Partner Agreement with Rescale
MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies has recently signed a Channel Partner agreement with Rescale, a leading cloud simulation provider offering a high performance computing platform for engineering and scientific simulations. Under the agreement, MAYA will become a sales representative for Rescale’s offering of Siemens PLM Software’s NX™ Nastran® based on their Software as a Service (Saas)…
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Automate and Visualize Results of Your Simulations Using Gnuplot on Rescale
BackgroundMany engineers tasked with running HPC applications are usually intent on monitoring their simulations to ensure the computation is progressing as expected, determine when the solution error is below typical engineering error thresholds, or verify the integrity of the physical phenomena they are simulating. While most commercial applications offer some form of visualizing or plotting…
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Rescale Releases New, Lower HPC Hardware Pricing
February 2, 2015 – San Francisco, CA. Today, Rescale releases lower pricing across its high performance computing (HPC) cloud hardware. This price change will be effective immediately for all customers. The cloud simulation platform provider has dropped prices on average by 40% and now offers increased accessibility to budget-restricted projects – while maintaining its position as…
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Open/Closed and the Single Responsibility Principle
The SOLID principles of object-oriented design provide good guidelines for writing code that is easy to change, but for some of the principles, the motivation and value can be difficult to understand. Open/Closed is particularly vexing: software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification What does it mean…
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New HPC Capabilities for the Enterprise – CEO Looks Forward to 2015
Looking forward to 2015, we have some exciting new updates in the works here at Rescale. Primarily based on customer feedback and alignment with our long term roadmap, you can expect some major updates in the following areas: New Hardware & Lower PricesWe already have a great selection of hardware configurations at various competitive price…
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The Real Cost of High Performance Computing
The cost of buying HPC equipment is around 1/3 of the true cost of owning an HPC. Yes, that is true and everyone needs to understand that before they make a cost comparison to Rescale pricing.When I speak to customers inevitably there is a comparison to the cost of an internal HPC to Rescale. It…
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Which One to Worry About? Ebola vs. Influenza
Lately, news from West Africa is almost always on Ebola. This is not a new problem, however, this historical Ebola epidemic continues to have a significant impact in the region. At the very least, you will see what looks like a tree with sparkling lights (see the videos below). In actuality, the following is an…
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Rescale: 2014 in Review
Team 2014 was a year of immense growth and development for Rescale. Our team expanded with the addition of several new members, including, Engineer: Mairi Macdonald, Hiraku Nakamura, Alex Kudlick, Mark Whitney, and Kenneth Chung, Operations Manager: Sarah Dietz, VP of Sales: Tony Spagnuolo, and VP of Marketing and Corporate Development: Shing Pan. Platform This…
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Leveraging Static Typing to Manage Object State
There has been a lot of talk in the software engineering world about the pains associated with OOP and specifically mutable state. Side-effect free Functional Programming is often touted as a solution. While there are some salient points on mutability, the real issues arise from naive use of implicitly mutable objects. If done properly, mutable state…
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Convergent Science and Rescale Team Up to Simulate the Manning "Wobbly" Pass
Every Sunday, Monday, and Thursday millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite players throwing the pigskin down the field. Tensions and emotions rise and fall with each play, game, and season. No doubt if you’re a Peyton Manning fan you have felt these ups and downs, along with a few “What kind of…
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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 to a license server in order to checkout license tokens. Typically, companies will have a license server running on premise, sitting behind the corporate firewall. ISVs will provision licenses that…
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Sneak Peek: Visualization on Rescale
The Challenge of Remote VisualizationContents1 The Challenge of Remote Visualization2 An Incremental Process3 A Remote Visualization Preview4 Help us improve remote visualization. We have received many requests to integrate some type of visualization solution on Rescale. At Rescale, we agree that this is an important part of some engineering work flows. However, performing visualization in…
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Quick Tip: Working Directory Snapshot
It can be useful to take periodic snapshots of the working directory for a run of your Rescale job, either for restart purposes or for additional review on your local machine. Rescale makes it easy. Starting from the Status tab available on the right side of your screen (), select the run you would like…
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Released! Walk through Rescale's New User Interface
In the previous article, I had briefly discussed the three features that would debut with the new user interface. Today, I would like to walk you through the entire job-setup process using the new UI. But before I do that, here’s a list of new features for you to skim over. Let’s set up a…