November 2015 Summaries

The Rescale Transfer Manager is a Windows application designed to efficiently download output files from jobs, offering a faster and more reliable alternative to browser-based downloads. Users must first generate and input an API key to use the application, which can be downloaded and installed via the Rescale Transfer Manager section. The tool provides multiple methods for downloading files: users can initiate a download for all job output files from a job's result page, or selectively transfer specific files by using a job ID and a search query for filtering. Additionally, the Transfer Manager includes an automatic download feature, which can be configured to start downloading files from completed jobs based on specified criteria such as job age, destination directory, and file name search query. This feature requires the application to remain open to function effectively. For support or feature suggestions, users can contact the provided email address.

Rescale provides a platform for software vendors to conduct regression and performance testing using its API and command line tools, offering on-demand and scalable compute resources that allow for running extensive test suites in parallel. This flexibility in testing is enhanced by the availability of heterogeneous resources, enabling software performance evaluations across various hardware configurations such as Infiniband and GPU-enabled clusters. Users can upload test data and scripts to Rescale, create test suite jobs, and execute tests with the option to reuse reference test data, thereby optimizing resource use and minimizing upload requirements. Rescale's platform also supports incremental builds for software testing and allows for parallel execution of long and short tests, which can be configured to run on different hardware setups. The platform's Design-of-Experiment (DOE) jobs enable parameterized test runs, offering a balanced approach to parallelism and hardware configuration uniformity. Additionally, Rescale provides a CLI tool to facilitate efficient file uploads, particularly for large datasets, ensuring robust and flexible testing capabilities for users.