Workflows to Automate Multi-Step Simulation Pipelines

Rescale Workflows provide a visual canvas for building reusable Workflow Templates that automate multi-step simulation processes, integrating jobs, workstations, storage, and agents. This system eliminates the need for brittle custom scripts by offering a structured, intuitive, and auditable way to manage complex pre- and post-processing, validation, and troubleshooting.

Overview

Rescale Workflows are a new way to build, run, and monitor multi-step simulation processes on the Rescale platform. It provides a visual canvas to configure jobs, workstations, storage, and agents into reusable templates that automate complex pre‑ and post‑processing, job configuration management, and agent integration. 

Highlights

What is it?

A Workflow Template is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of nodes that run actions on the Rescale platform. Nodes can represent jobs, workstations, storage devices, decision logic, and agents, all linked together through well-defined inputs, outputs, and parameters.

Rescale Workflows include:

  • A drag‑and‑drop canvas to compose and configure workflow templates
  • A guided experience to provide inputs and launch and monitor workflow runs based on a shared template 
  • Managed data transfer between nodes via shared storage, so all processes use the same data efficiently
  • Integration with the Rescale Assistant and pre‑built agents for validation and troubleshooting

Why did we build it? Organizations need a way to automate multi-step simulation pipelines, without having to maintain brittle custom scripts. Workflows integrates agents into engineering processes in a structured, intuitive, and auditable way. 

How is it used? 

  • Build the workflow template by adding and configuring Job, Workstation, Storage Device, Decision and Agent nodes. Define the input parameters required to run the workflow, and connect these parameters to node configurations.
  • Run the workflow template by specifying the required input parameters, and monitor the progress of all workflow nodes
  • Using natural language, the Rescale Assistant can help with building workflow templates and submitting workflow runs
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Getting Started

Contact your Rescale representative to enable it for your account.

Navigate to Workflows

Create your first workflow template

Run and monitor a workflow

Leverage the Assistant and agents

Hardware Recommender

Owner: Kim Lam

Release Date: 5/12

Excerpt: Rescale offers recommendations for hardware coretypes depending on needs for performance and value, based on Rescale’s performance benchmarks and hardware pricing. This makes it easier to choose the best hardware for the job. 

Overview

Rescale now recommends hardware for your jobs. Recommendations come from Rescale’s own performance benchmarks and hardware pricing data, so instead of comparing a long list of coretypes, you have a clear starting point based on what actually works for your software.

Highlights

When you set up a job, Rescale shows up to three recommendations at the top of the coretype list, labeled by type.

  • Best Performance: The hardware that runs your software fastest, based on Rescale’s performance benchmark data
  • Best Value: The most economic option for your workload
  • Best Overall: A balanced pick when you want strong price-to-performance 

Getting Started

Open a new job, select the software you want to run, and go to the hardware selection step. 
Recommendations appear automatically based on the software you’ve selected.
No setup required. Available to all Rescale customers.

For more information, see the Rescale documentation.

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