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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…
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Rescale Announces Strategic and Technology Partnership with Convergent Science, Inc.
San Francisco, CA – Rescale and Convergent Science are pleased to announce a strategic and technology partnership that will provide users of CONVERGE™ CFD software the ability to run their simulations in the cloud with pay-per-use pricing using Rescale’s end-to-end, web-based simulation platform. In conjunction with the partnership, Convergent Science is also introducing CONVERGE™ in…
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Rescale Case Study: Bombardier Aerospace
Recently, we completed a Rescale project with an aerodynamicist at Bombardier Aerospace. With more than 35,500 employees and a leadership position in global markets, Bombardier Aerospace designs, manufactures and supports innovative aviation products for the business, commercial, specialized, and amphibious aircraft markets. The Aerospace Simulation ProjectContents1 The Aerospace Simulation Project2 Design Visualization3 The Overall Rescale…
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Rescale Announces Partnership with Vanderplaats Research & Development, Inc. (VR&D)
San Francisco, CA – Rescale and VR&D are announcing a strategic partnership to provide users of VR&D’s design optimization software suite the ability to run their analyses in the cloud using Rescale’s end-to-end, web-based platform. “VR&D is a globally recognized leader in design optimization technologies. As a technology partner, we look forward to helping their…
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Cloud Simulation Security Q&A with Rescale
One of the first questions I get from every prospective Rescale customer is about security in the cloud, and rightfully so. Data security in the cloud is a big deal. Our customers work with highly technical, highly proprietary data. At Rescale, protecting the confidentiality and security of customer data at all times is our highest priority. On…
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Rescale announces University Research Grant Competition
Rescale (rescale.com), through the Rescale University Program (ReUP), has established an engineering and science research grant competition, available to researchers (faculty, staff, and students) at academic institutions across the world. The grants will be awarded in the form of credits towards Rescale’s cloud simulation platform, allowing recipients to conduct compute-heavy analyses much faster than with…
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Introducing Sharing on Rescale
Project collaboration can be very time-consuming, and it’s often a difficult task to distribute assignments to colleagues. When engineers and scientists spend their time collecting and sharing files back and forth, it reduces the time they could spend on product development. This can disrupt project deadlines and lead to less than optimal designs. Sharing analyses…
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Introducing Cloning on Rescale
Engineers and scientists spend significant time managing their simulation data. This problem will only increase in coming years as engineers run larger analyses more often. Instead of spending time understanding and analyzing results, engineers and scientists are instead devoting time to organizing data.At Rescale, we believe it should be easy to edit and re-run simulations…
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Rescale Announces Strategic Partnership with Dassault Systèmes, Joins SIMULIA Alliance Ecosystem
San Francisco, CA – Rescale and Dassault Systèmes are announcing a technology partnership to provide users of SIMULIA Abaqus Finite Element Analysis (FEA) the ability to run their simulations in the cloud using Rescale’s end-to-end, web-based platform. “Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA application is a recognized leader in simulation technologies, and we are thrilled to expand our relationship…
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Run Gromacs Faster on Rescale with Parallelization
Gromacs was developed by ScalaLife and funded by the European Research Council. Gromacs is an open-source, versatile package designed for analyzing molecular dynamics in biochemical molecules. Due to its popularity, we decided to use Gromacs to demonstrate the steps required to parallelize a single job across multiple dynos (i.e., computing cores). You can find the…
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Introducing Gerris to Rescale
Gerris is an open-source CFD software tool developed by Dr. Stéphane Popinet of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research (NIWA) in New Zealand. While originally developed for modeling complex wind patterns, the code has been used across the world to model complex flows such as spacecraft re-entry dynamics, drag on aircraft airfoils and…
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MPI Latency on Google Compute Engine
Google has officially thrown its gauntlet into the IaaS cloud computing ring by opening up access to the Google Compute Engine (GCE) service to the general public. One of the differentiating features touted by Google is the performance of its networking infrastructure. We decided to take the service for a quick spin to see what…
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Case Study: University of Kansas, Life Sciences Research
This is a guest post by a Rescale customer, Eric Lee, discussing his first Rescale experience.Hello everyone! My name is Eric Lee, and I am a graduate student at the University of Kansas. At KU, my research focuses on nanofluidics, specifically nanowetting problems. Nanofluidics is the study of nanoflows in and around nanosized objects. At…
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Rescale Releases New, Unique ‘Live Tailing’ Feature
What is Live Tailing’? Why Did You Build It?Contents1 What is Live Tailing’? Why Did You Build It?2 How Does Live Tailing Work?3 Why is it useful?4 Does Live Tailing Work With Image Files as Well?5 How Can I Try It? The solvers in modern simulation codes in applications such as CFD, FEA and molecular…