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Rescale (YC W12) raises $6.4M

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Congrats! Coincidentally, I was just showing the Rescale website to a colleague of mine, as an example of a platform that we could align with for a uncertainty analysis toolbox that we're developing.

I haven't had the chance to use Rescale yet, but everything I see and read makes it come across as a winner. I think there's a lot of growth in MDO (Multidisciplinary Optimization) for multiple industries and Rescale seems like the perfect platform to leverage integrated, high-fidelity simulation tools.

For instance, Concurrent Engineering (CE) is quite popular in the space industry these days but only really works for preliminary mission design, because of the lack of cohesion of tools during later phases. I think that Rescale has the potential to extend the idea of CE to detailed design phases too, and that would truly be a game-changer.

Definitely going to keep an eye on their jobs page!

Thanks!

You hit it spot on - we are also a big believer in the potential of MDO, and basically built the Rescale platform as the plumbing to make it really easy for engineers and scientists formulate their MDO problems and complex workflows, running across any of the 120+ commercial and open-source packages available on the platform turnkey.

We are working with some exciting customers on detailed design concurrent engineering, MDO, and co-simulation type workflows and processes. Many of these were simply infeasible to run in-house, so a great net new opportunity when you have access to unlimited hardware and software resources.

Great - we are definitely hiring! :)

That's awesome! MDO is definitely the way forward, especially in the aerospace sector. Having cloud infrastructure that can scale seamlessly to meet the tooling requirements is a prerequisite to being able to focus on improve the tooling itself I think, so sounds like you're on the right track.

Out of curiosity, do you also sponsor H1-B visas? I seem some jobs listed on your website that peak my interest, but have hesitated about applying because I was unsure if you do.

Regarding H1-B it depends on the position and role - but please feel free to send us your info at jobs@rescale.com to see if there is a good fit.

We've had discussions talking about how cloud industry could learn from supercomputing industry's successes/failures and vice versa. Pretty awesome for me to see a supercomputing-style company with the cloud model. That could've been great for research I did in the past where I needed supercomputer time but it's cost or administrative issues were prohibitive. I expect to see interesting things come out of this.

Thanks for your support! We certainly hope to lower the barrier as much as we possibly can for users to get immediate turn-key access to supercompute resources without the need to be a hardware or computer science expert to get things up and running.

Using the cloud to make machines that soar through the clouds? Brilliant!

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