Release Notes
Platform Updates, New Innovations, and Announcements
February
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AI-driven Admin Analysis and Control for Credits, Deposits, and Budgets
Rescale Assistant now gives admins access to credits, deposits, and budgets, for natural language queries of spend and resource consumption.
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Updates to the New Rescale Platform Experience
Transition to the new Platform Interface to unlock advanced features like Workspace Folders, Data Intelligence, and AI Physics. This update provides a more responsive, streamlined workflow and improved stability for managing large-scale simulation projects.
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New Rescale Help Center for Improved Support, On-Demand
The new Help Center helps customers access support and find answers to common questions, at any time.
December
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Coretype Collections for Improved Workload Cost-Performance
Achieve equal or better performance at the same cost of the main coretype helping users improve performance.
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Enhanced Storage Visibility: Dynamic Workload Usage & CFS Admin Insights
Track actual storage usage for your workloads and use the new CFS usage admin dashboard to gain accurate and real-time insights into your data consumption.
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Job Priority Policies for Improved Cost Efficiency
Enable admins and users to start jobs during daily off‑peak hours within the next 24 hours for a discount in compute infrastructure to reduce costs.
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Rescale managed firewall service (CNAF) is now generally available
Rescale’s managed firewall service (CNAF) is now generally available.
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Introducing Workspace Folders for Improved Organization & Sharing
Workspace Folders allow you to organize simulations into a hierarchical structure that mirrors your engineering workflow, improving data visibility and collaboration through shared access and granular permissions.
November
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Hardware Policies
Define hardware options per software application to improve budget predictability and job standardization at scale.
October
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Introducing Rescale Data Intelligence: Unify and Analyze Your Engineering Data
Rescale Data is an intelligence platform that unifies your engineering data, providing AI-powered insights to accelerate innovation and reduce data management overhead.
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Preserve Sandboxes When Publishing Custom Software
New feature option in Rescale Software Publisher to preserve sandboxes after publishing.
September
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Smarter Job Attachments for Continuous Monitoring from Workstation
Rescale automatically collocates your workstation and running job, ensuring continuous and reliable connections to monitor interactive simulations.
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Automatic Deletion of Files from Cloud File System (CFS) Upon Archival
Automate the deletion of unneeded job and workstation files from Cloud File System, helping reduce storage usage and streamline file management.
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New Platform Experience for Accelerated Innovation, Now Available in Beta
Rescale’s redesigned user interface streamlines navigation and workflows across various tools and introduces new data and AI capabilities.
August
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License Hosting Enhancements for Streamlined Administration
New features for license hosting add proactive notifications and flexible license administration.
July
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Workspace Deposit Management
Admins can enable users to start using new workspaces immediately by assigning deposits from the Organization Administration portal.
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Enhanced User Offboarding Capabilities
Streamline deleting user accounts and transferring data with self-serve off-boarding for workspace administrators.
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Storage Management and Reporting Enhancements
Multiple enhancements to storage features make it easier and faster to review and manage your data.
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Add Files Directly to Cloud File System (CFS)
Streamline file management with direct uploads to Rescale Cloud File System.
June
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Budgets API for Scalable Financial Management
New budgets API enables admins and users to create, manage, and track budgets programmatically, with the same capabilities as the UI, for greater financial visibility and control.
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Rescale Assistant for Conversational Simulation Data Analysis
Rescale Data now includes a new AI-driven analysis to query simulation data with natural language to quickly summarize key results and make decisions faster.
May
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Monthly Charge Insights in the Economics Dashboard
The Economics Dashboard now includes all monthly charges, providing a comprehensive view of expenses for enhanced financial reporting and decision making.
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Multi-Workspace Budgets for Managing Consumption
Track and set limits on usage across any number of organization workspaces with new multi-workspace budgets.
April
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Charge Type Budgets to Monitor Specific Resource Usage
Enhanced Budgets now allow users to track specific charge types for more granular resource consumption monitoring.
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Core Hour Usage Budget Management
Set specific budgets for compute usage based on core-hour consumption.
March
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Rescale Software Publisher is now generally available
Rescale Software Publisher is now generally available as a separately licensed feature on the Rescale platform.
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Billing & Cost Management Enhancements
Billing and cost management enhancements include 3-year data visibility, improved usability, faster data loading, API access to CSV downloads, and new deposit management features.
December
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Company License Proxy Enhancements and Updates
CLPs now feature improved reliability, availability, monitoring, and updated pricing.
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Folder Management APIs
New Folder APIs improve data management for easier organization, access, and maintenance of files, supporting scalable engineering and IT operations.
November
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Enhancements for Job and User Interface Performance and Usability
Several performance enhancements for faster job page loads and launch times are now released to all platforms.
October
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Important Update: Multi-Factor Authentication Requirement Starting November 15th, 2024
For enhanced security, users without single sign-on enabled will be required to use MFA to log into all Rescale platforms.
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Introducing Studies: A New Way to Manage Simulation Projects
Rescale Studies streamline how simulation projects are organized and improve the team’s access to relevant data and context.
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Auto-Terminate Suspended Workstations
Admins can now automatically terminate suspended workstations after a set period to improve resource management and reduce costs.
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Software Publisher Enhancements – Sandbox Management, License Support, and Improved Software Tile Administration
Rescale offers new Software Publisher feature enhancements for sandbox management, license support, and improved software tile administration.
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Data Access API is now in Public Beta
Effortlessly access your simulation data with Rescale’s new Data Access API. This beta release empowers you to query and retrieve the information you need from our Simulation Data Lakehouse, streamlining your workflows and enabling data-driven decisions.
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AI Model Library: Ready-to-Deploy AI
Instantly access and deploy AI models, accelerating your simulation workflows and achieving faster results.
September
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Recover and Preserve Data from Unresponsive Workstations
Users can recover unresponsive Elastic Cloud Workstations, now generally available in all platforms for greater self-service control and data preservation.
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Custom Fields Available in Public Beta
Capture specific metadata with structured and standardized fields at job, template, and workspace.
July
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Licensing Support for FedRAMP Accounts Now Generally Available
License hosts and license proxies are now available for applications requiring FedRAMP compliance.
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New Software and Versions Added: Simcenter, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, and More…
Access new software and the latest versions in Rescale’s library of 1200+ pre-installed catalog for engineering and scientific discovery.
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CoreWeave GPU Coretypes Available in Public Beta for Increased AI/ML Workload Capacity
Access increased GPU capacity for AI/ML workloads from CoreWeave, a new cloud service provider on Rescale.
June
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Compute Classes Now Generally Available
Default Compute Classes now set to General Purpose hardware to ensure business continuity.
May
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Computational Pipelines for End-to-End Workflow Automation
Build and automate complex workflows to improve efficiency, standardize best practices, and accelerate time-to-solution.
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Software Publisher Enhancements – New Sandbox Administration Features
New enhancements improve Sandbox management for admins to streamline software self publishing.
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Integrated License Hosting Now Generally Available
License hosting enables integrated and consistent management of all commercial software licenses.
April
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Filtered Views for Job and Workstation Pages
Filtered Views are used to create, share, and save custom views of jobs and workstations for enhanced navigation and teamwork.
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New Software and Versions Added: Matlab, Cadence, Ansys and More…
Access the latest releases of leading simulation software, pre-installed and ready to power your next innovation.
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Cloud File System Enhancements – AWS FSx for Lustre, Back-up & Recovery
Enhancements to Rescale Cloud File System (CFS) include support for AWS FSx Lustre and the ability to backup and recover previous storage CFS storage device.
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Software Publisher Enhancements – Multi-Cloud, Hardware Configuration, and Linux OS
Enhancements to Software Publisher include support for Microsoft Azure, specific hardware configurations, and updated Linux OS images (Rocky and Alma Linux).
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Enhanced Suspended Workstation Termination
We have introduced the ability to stop a suspended workstation, enhancing workflow efficiency and control.
March
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Enhanced Workstation Suspension Duration and Security Updates
We’ve upgraded our workstation suspension capabilities to support indefinite durations, coupled with enhanced security through automatic updates.
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New Job Environment Variables for CLI and Scripts
Simplify your workflows with RESCALE_JOB_ID and RESCALE_API_BASE_URL environment variables.
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AI Physics Powered by NVIDIA
Rescale’s AI Physics powered by NVIDIA, now in beta, revolutionizes engineering and scientific research by accelerating simulations by 1000X+, setting a new standard for AI-accelerated innovation.
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CentOS 7 to New Linux OS Transition
CentOS Linux clusters will be transitioned to new industry-standard Linux operating systems.
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Enhanced Security with Updated SSH Access Restriction Policy
Starting March 11th, Rescale is strengthening its security with a revised SSH Access Restriction policy to enhance compliance and protect user data more effectively.
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Wildcard Tag Search for Enhanced Traceability
Use wildtags “*” on tag searches for broader, more flexible searches and improved data traceability.
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Automatically Populate Metadata from Simulation Results
Save time and improve data quality by automatically capturing key fields from existing simulations.
February
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IP Address Charges for AWS Compute
A new charge for compute and storage resources used with IP addresses from AWS.
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Search and Filter by File Name
Find simulation resources and discover insights faster with improved file search and filtering.
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File Tags now available
Resource tagging is now available for simulation files.
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Embedded Job API Keys are Now Available
Streamline your automation and secure your workflows with our new Embedded Job API Keys.
December
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Announcing Metadata Management
Data management framework that provides teams with a shared context for engineering data.
October
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New Software Versions: Simcenter, Ansys, Converge and More…
Many new versions of leading software are now available and pre-installed in the Rescale Software Catalog
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Azure HBv4 Now Available in Beta
The latest optimized Azure AMD EPYC virtual machine is now available on Rescale in beta.
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Background Tab Loading
All platform browser tabs will be loaded concurrently including background tabs.
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New Jobs Page
Access jobs with greater context and control, with advanced search and more enhancements.
September
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New Software Versions: Ansys, Dassault, Hexagon and More…
Many new versions of leading software are now available and pre-installed in the Rescale Software Catalog
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Autosuspend for Elastic Cloud Workstation
Automatically save and suspend workstations when walltime limits are reached.
August
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AWS Graviton3 ARM (Hpc7g)
The latest Arm architecture on AWS is now available for leading performance and efficiency
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Sharable Performance Profiles
Collaborate on hardware benchmarks with sharable Performance Profiles.
June
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Resource Tagging
Improve collaboration with flexible tags and metadata management.
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Recover Failed Elastic Cloud Workstations
Enhanced data protection for workstation sessions.
May
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Job Analyzer
Monitor cloud hardware utilization for any job
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Software Publisher
Self-deploy custom and in-house software for unified management within your private catalog.
April
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8x Faster CSV Downloads
Downloading large datasets and reviewing platform reports is now significantly faster.
February
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Azure Suspension for Elastic Cloud Workstation
Suspension for workstations on Azure is now available.