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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…
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Siemens’ NX Nastran Now Available on Rescale's On-Demand Cloud Environment
Cost–Effective, Scalable Model for Hardware and Premier FEA Software. Improves Efficiency and Product Quality; Speeds Time-to-Market Siemens’ NX™ Nastran® software is now available on Rescale, an on-demand, dynamically scalable cloud environment delivered through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The new joint solution, which integrates on-demand high-performance computing (HPC) hardware with the industry’s leading finite element…
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How On-Demand Hardware and Software Impacts Engineering Development
Every engineer running simulations has experienced the struggle of formulating a computation or simulation job and being unable to solve it due to hardware or software resource constraints. At Rescale, our goal is to eliminate these constraints and ultimately empower engineers to move up a level of abstraction toward simulation- and model-based design [mbd]. On-demand…
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Impressions from SAE Congress Meeting in Detroit
If you’re like me, you’ve attended innumerable trade conferences in your career. This ancient history includes all the Web 1.0 events including Networld/Interop, Supercomputing, LinuxWorld, Cisco Partner Summit, IBM PartnerWorld and more recently, a number of software vendor sponsored automotive user conferences. This past week I was fortunate to meet with many software developers and…
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Video Tutorials Help Users Set Up Simulations
Rescale provides a suite of fully integrated simulation and workflow software tools, including, Abaqus, CONVERGE, LS-DYNA, Nastran, and Fluent, among others (for a full list please click here). Partnerships with the software vendors who have developed these software packages are an important element in ensuring customers readily have access to the tools when and where…
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Security FAQ: Heartbleed Vulnerability
On April 7th, we were made aware of a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library known as the Heartbleed bug. When it is exploited it leads to the leak of memory contents from the server to the client and from the client to the server. We’ve taken a number of steps to…