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The Advantages of On-Demand Cloud Computing with a next Generation CFD Solution
Benefit directly from the advantages of our pay-per-use cloud computing partnershipContents1 Benefit directly from the advantages of our pay-per-use cloud computing partnership2 Background3 The Challenge of Traditional CFD4 What is XFlow and what makes it unique?5 HPC Support, a must for any CFD Software Rescale, Inc. and Next Limit Dynamics S.L. are pleased to announce…
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Remote Cluster Access
IntroductionContents1 Introduction2 Generating an SSH Key Pair3 Adding the SSH Public Key to your Rescale Account4 Disabling Automatic Termination of Clusters5 Logging Into a Running Cluster on Rescale Rescale has recently released additional user account job settings, which provide customers with the ability to securely connect to the remote clusters that they have provisioned in…
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Too Hot? Too Cold?
Within offices, there is a constant struggle between turning the air conditioner on or off, as well as raising or lowering the thermostat’s temperature. This makes some too warm, while others put on additional layers of clothing just to maintain their warmth. This battle over the thermostat rages on even as the seasons change! We will make Rescale…
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Rescale: Minimizing Data Challenges
When performing HPC in the cloud, one of the workflow tasks engineers and scientists have to deal with is the handling of large amounts of data. The question the engineer often has to ask is: “What data is useful to me and how can I present it in a functional form?” When all the data…
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Rescale's New User Interface: Managing Large File Sets
In the new user interface (UI), we faced a common UI challenge of letting users select a large set of files and perform a group action on those items. The first thing that jumped to our minds was to show all files with a checkbox next to each one. That proved to be problematic for three reasons:…
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Industry Perspective With SpaceX Lead Software Engineer Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones is a lead software engineer at SpaceX and former CUDA architect at NVIDIAFor this post, Stephen Jones gives his perspective on aspects of technology of great interest to Rescale’s users. As a major contributor to CUDA, many of Rescale’s users have run analyses taking advantage of his work on GPU technology, and others…
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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 Windows Azure because of the HPC Pack installation requirement that the official documentation recommends. As we discovered, it is possible to manually install and configure a Microsoft MPI cluster without…
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Quick Tip: Variable Formatting in Templates
Rescale makes it easy to run a design of experiments, as previously discussed in this post. Here we will provide some quick tips on template generation so your variables are formatted to your liking.We support two methods for specifying a range of variables:1. Uploading a comma-separated values (CSV) file, where each row is a case–also…
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Leveraging Rescale for High-Order CFD Simulation
Background Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has undergone immense development as a discipline over the past several decades and is used routinely to complement empirical testing in product design of aircraft, automobiles, microelectronics, and several other industries. The vast majority of commercially available fluid flow solvers in use today exploit finite difference, finite volume, or finite…
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Rescale Team Welcomes Tony Spagnuolo
Rescale is pleased to welcome Tony Spagnuolo, vice president of sales, to the Rescale team. Tony was previously at MSC Software for four years as the head of aerospace sector sales. Prior to MSC Software, Tony also held senior technical sales positions at Mechanical Dynamics, Nevada Automotive Test Center, Rockwell International, and General Motors. With…
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The Cloud of Everything: A Universal Workspace
“Many hands make light work” is as true today as it was in the 16th Century when John Heywood first coined the phrase. The historical perspective of “piecework” now gives way in modern parlance to the idea of “global collaboration”. Current trends point conclusively to the value of an always-available, secure, and collaborative web-based environment…
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World Cup: Run Your Own CFD Analysis of a Spinning Soccer Ball
With the 2014 World Cup coming to a close, we’ve seen great shots and great saves. However, what is the science behind the curving shot that causes so much commotion and so many great goals. Rescale and Convergent Science teamed up to show how the cloud and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can help us understand…
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User Recounts First Experience with New Cloud Solution Provided by AVL and Rescale
Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that provides on-demand, scalable compute configurations coupled with fully integrated simulation software. Rescale and AVL recently announced a technology partnership that allows AVL FIRE® users to burst their simulations into the cloud on demand. Once the user has created their models, they only need a web browser to quickly…
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Want to Run CAE Simulations in the Cloud?
When running engineering and scientific simulations, high performance computing (HPC) resources are often vital components in successful analyses being executed in a timely manner. The multi-billion dollar HPC industry continues to grow to meet popular demand for the improved performance, faster interconnectivity, and lower network latency that HPC computing resources offer over standard computing configurations.…
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Software's Key Role in Getting the Most Out of Cloud's Computational Power
Much focus is directed towards hardware when it comes to parallel performance scalability of solving massive engineering problems. When distributing a large partitioned CFD or FEA model over many nodes, the lower latency network becomes exponentially more important as the number of nodes increases. However, for today’s post, I would like to shift attention away…
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Rescale Announces Technology Partnership with AVL List GmbH
Graz, Austria – Rescale, Inc. and AVL List GmbH are pleased to announce a technology partnership that allows users of AVL FIRE®, a powerful, multi-purpose, thermo-fluid dynamics CFD software product to run on the Rescale simulation platform. AVL FIRE® users now have the ability to run their simulations in the cloud, on demand across thousands…
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Three New Features That Will Debut with UI Redesign
Rescale provides a platform where its users (mostly engineers and scientists) can run their computer simulations on demand in the cloud. At a high level, running these computer simulations require two steps. First, an engineer or a scientist has to design a scientific model to test his/her hypothesis. And secondly, he/she has to set up…
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Running Design of Experiments on Rescale
Let’s say you want to run your simulation against a variety of configurations. Rescale makes it easy to run a design of experiments (DOE)–also known as a “Parallel Process” in the Rescale interface. To set up a DOE, it is easiest to start from an existing Rescale job, consisting of the following: 1. Selected hardware…
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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 a number of niche providers offer InfiniBand connectivity to address this gap, Microsoft is the first major provider to offer this type of high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect with its new Big…
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A Sneak Peek at Rescale's API
At Rescale, we’ve been quite busy lately with a few exciting features in the works. One of the items at the top of our customers’ wish list has been the ability to programmatically burst jobs onto the platform. To enable that, we’ve been working on making a public facing API. Currently, our web service is…