section-index · Reviewed 2026-09-14

Platform Overview

Rescale is a managed platform for running simulation and high-performance computing workloads in the cloud. You bring the model and the software; Rescale supplies the hardware, the software installation, the parallel environment, and the data movement around them.

If you have not run anything yet, start with Getting Started and come back here for the wider map.

The four solution areas

The documentation is organized around what you are trying to do, not around the platform's internal structure.

Solution area

HPC Foundations

The execution stack: jobs, workstations, software, hardware, and where the data lands.

Solution area

Advanced Modeling & Simulation

Multi-run studies and design exploration: workflows, DOE, and the metadata that keeps them navigable.

Solution area

Agentic Engineering

Agents that act on the platform, and the MCP server that exposes it to your own tools.

Solution area

AI Physics

Train surrogate models on simulation data and run inference in place of a solve.

Capabilities that cut across them

The pages in this section are not tied to one solution area. They apply whichever way you use the platform.

Capability	What it covers
Software	The managed catalog, versions and tiles, licensing models, publishing your own
Hardware	Per-job hardware selection, priority and pricing, and the automation that picks for you
Workspace Folders	Organizing jobs, workstations and workflows together
Collaboration	Sharing work and commenting on it
Intelligent Resource Automation	Letting the platform decide when and where work runs
AI on the platform	Which of Edison, agents and AI Physics you want, and which solution area provides it
Administration	What an administrator controls, and where each control is documented
User Settings	Your API keys, notifications, access restrictions, budgets, and which workspace you are in

Reference and help

• Glossary for Rescale-specific and general HPC terms
• Contact Support for reaching Rescale when something is wrong

Entered by role rather than by task

Two more sections are organized around who you are:

• For Developers for the REST API, CLI, MCP server, and automations
• For Administrators for organizations and workspaces, billing, usage, security and identity

Related

• Getting Started to set up an account and run a first job
• Core concepts for the vocabulary the rest of the docs assumes
• Release Notes for what changed recently