Rescale
Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, California by Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie, Rescale is a startup that develops a cloud computing simulation platform. Rescale was a Y Combinator company and has received $6.4M in funding from high-profile investors including Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham, and Peter Thiel. The founders, Poort and McKenzie, previously built a software technology stack at Boeing saving the company over $180M through weight improvements on the 787 Dreamliner.
The Rescale platform combines engineering and science software tools with high performance computing to create a cloud simulation environment. Design Engineering magazine describes Rescale as "...a good fit for manufacturers who need to run complex simulation and optimization jobs, but don't have the HPC hardware required."
The Platform noted in May, 2015 that Rescale claims the largest known globally available commercial HPC network with "...eight million servers globally with a potential 1,400 petaflops of compute capacity... across 30 global datacenters."
Rescale has partnerships with engineering software companies in the computer aided engineering space including: ANSYS, AutoForm, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Dassault Systemes and MSC Software.
