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Reservoir Simulation Moves to the Cloud
What is Reservoir Simulation? Reservoir simulation is applied by the oil and gas industry in the development of oil and gas fields, as well as in production forecasts to help make investment decisions. This branch of reservoir engineering is concerned with modeling fluids and gases inside the reservoir for production purposes. Most modern simulators allow…
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Using Parameter Sweeps and Optimizations on Rescale
Not all analysis software available on Rescale make use of multi-threading, or MPI, to scale across multiple cores or nodes. However, the workflow features available on Rescale provide practical applications for scaling out these serial codes. I will show how an automotive engineer can use the Rescale platform to improve the design of an internal…
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Test the Scalability of Your PETSc Algorithm on Rescale
Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) is a suite of data structures and routines developed by Argonne National Laboratory for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. PETSc is one of the world’s most widely used parallel numerical software libraries for partial differential equations and sparse matrix computations. Traditionally, when a…
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Running an MD Simulation of Graphene on Rescale
With the recent hype about graphene – a new material that has been praised for its unparalleled strength, lightness and electronic properties – I became curious and wondered whether I could run a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of graphene given its simple chemical structure (hexagonal lattice). As someone new to the field of MD, with…
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Rescale Team Welcomes Phil Alexander
Rescale is pleased to welcome Phil Alexander, vice president of business development, to the Rescale team. Phil joins Rescale from IBM, where he managed global independent software vendor (ISV) strategic alliances and distribution partners for technical computing. A long time resident of the bay / valley area, Phil has a background that includes channel management…
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Numerical Simulation of Blood Flow in Flexible Arteries Using Fluid-Structure Interaction
BackgroundThe increasing accuracy requirements in many of today’s simulation tasks in science and engineering more and more often involve the need to take into account more than one physical effect. Among the most important, with respect to both modeling and computational issues, and most challenging of such multiphysics problems are fluid-structure interactions (FSI), i.e. interactions…
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Web-Based Remote Desktop with Guacamole and Django
As part of a recent Rescale hackday, I wanted to incorporate in-browser remote desktop functionality for the nodes that are launched on behalf of the user. Most workflows submitted to Rescale are batch processing jobs that run unattended, but the ability to log in to a machine and run a GUI to monitor the running…
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HPC+ Core Type Offers Improved Performance
Here at Rescale, we are very excited to introduce into production a new hardware profile – the “HPC+” compute configuration. This compute type has improved compute and interconnect capabilities coupled with SSD storage, yielding significantly improved performance. During beta testing, numerous Rescale users ran their simulation workflows using this hardware profile and the results were…
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Security and Compliance: Rescale's Independent External Audit
The security of customers’ information is of utmost importance to Rescale. While many of the steps we take to protect customers’ information are outlined on our Security page, new customers may have doubts about the effectiveness of the systems and controls we provide to protect their data. That’s where a trusted third-party can provide some reassurance.…
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Scaling PageRank with R on Rescale
With the proliferation of data driven applications over last few years, many applications have come to rely on advanced analyses of huge data sets. While MapReduce based frameworks, such as Hadoop, make it easier to scale your algorithms to big data sets, their restrictive programming framework makes it challenging to fit your existing computations to…
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Rescale Announces Technology Partnership with MSC Software
San Francisco, CA – Rescale is pleased to announce they have recently joined MSC Software’s Technology Partner Program. Rescale has certified the compatibility of three key MSC Software tools with Rescale’s cloud engineering platform: the multi-body dynamics simulation tool, Adams; the advanced nonlinear & multi-physics package, Marc, and structural & multidiscipline solver, MSC Nastran. “The…
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Looking Forward to 2014
Here at Rescale, we’ve had an excellent year in 2013 and are looking forward to another great year ahead. Below are some of the highlights on what we accomplished this past year, and quick preview of what’s to come in 2014! SecurityWe are always focused on making sure Rescale complies and adheres to the highest…
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Holiday Greetings from Rescale
Located in the heart of fast-paced technology and budding entrepreneurial endeavors, Rescale too saw big changes and movement throughout 2013. Over the course of the year, Rescale expanded its staff to welcome the addition of the following, Software Engineer: Daniel Bruce, Amey Chaugule, Mike Leung, Irwen Song; Senior Engineer: Zachary Davis; Business Development Manager: Ilea…
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Government Agencies Moving to the Cloud
At Rescale, we are excited to work with government agencies in the area of high-performance computing applications. In recent years, the government has shifted its approach to IT infrastructure management in favor of cloud computing, indicating that a number of concerns about the cloud are no longer seen as issues. According to the U.S. Federal…
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Rescale Attends Largest Oil and Gas Technical Conference
Last month Rescale attended the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), the largest technical conference in the field of oil and gas exploration and production (E&P). This year it was held in New Orleans, LA from September 30th through October 2nd. The SPE ATCE encompasses all technological aspects of oil…
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Oil and Gas: Acoustic Emissions Analysis in Drilling Scenarios
The large and demanding oil and gas field requires massive, computationally-intensive simulations for everything from reservoir modeling to drilling application to natural gas extraction. Additional factors including seismic stability, weather patterns, and acoustic emissions also contribute to the complexity of oil and gas analyses. Running complex simulations are essential to production, however, these analyses are…
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Thoughts from the ISC Cloud '13 Conference
I served as a panelist at the ISC Cloud’13 Conference, held this year in Heidelberg, Germany on September 23rd and 24th. Attendees included representatives from large manufacturers (HP, Intel, etc.), CAE software vendors (ANSYS, Simulia, etc.), large organizations and HPC end users (Ford, CERN, various universities), and of course, cloud simulation providers like Rescale. The…
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Design Optimization of an Airfoil Using Stanford University Software SU2
Stanford University Unstructured (SU2) is an open-source set of tools written in the C++ programming language. Designed to numerically solve problems involving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), it is uniquely suited for PDE-constrained optimization problems. While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and aerodynamic shape optimization were influential in driving early development of the code, it has also…
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Data Management in Engineering Simulations
As we noted in an earlier blog post about our Cloning feature, engineers and scientists spend significant time managing their simulation data. This is a problem because it interrupts their focus on product development and hinders progress in creating the best conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs possible. At its core, building great products requires a…
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ReUP Simulation Research Grant Winners
San Francisco, CA – Monday, September 9th marked the submission deadline for the first annual Rescale University Program (ReUP) Simulation Research Grant competition. The competition was created to enable engineering and science researchers at universities around the world to run their simulations with ease using high-performance cloud computing. Applicants were required to submit a short…