What is RCE?

RCE is an Open Source distributed, workflow-driven integration environment. It is used by engineers and scientists to design and simulate complex systems (e.g., aircraft, ships, or satellites) by using and integrating their own design and simulation tools.
An overview about RCE and some of its application fields gives this survey article.
If you're interested in contributing to RCE please don't hesitate and contact us. The source code is distributed as a zip archive along with each release. We will provide general public access to our source code repository soon.
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Cite us

If you use RCE in your research project, please cite either the software itself or our reference publication in SoftwareX:

Brigitte Boden, Jan Flink, Niklas Först, Robert Mischke, Kathrin Schaffert, Alexander Weinert, Annika Wohlan, and Andreas Schreiber. "RCE: an integration environment for engineering and science." SoftwareX 15 (2021): 100759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100759.

Brigitte Boden, Jan Flink, Robert Mischke, Kathrin Schaffert, Alexander Weinert, Annika Wohlan, and Andreas Schreiber. (2019). RCE (10.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3691675.

You can obtain the preprint of the SoftwareX-article from arXiV.

Work with us

We are always open to working together with users to extend RCE and to apply it to new use cases. For this, we often participate in collaborative research projects. Please contact us at rce@dlr.de.

News

RCE 10.5.0

RCE 10.5.0 (Green Monkey) has been released. This release includes usability improvements, technical changes, several third-party library upgrades and a number of bug fixes.

This page provides a compact summary of the changes. The full technical changelog can be found on the GitHub release page.

Please note two …

RCE 10.4.1

RCE 10.4.1 (Green Monkey) has been released. In this maintenance release, we fixed a bug that prevents the Script component from running long scripts with the Python Agent feature. We also fixed an issue that blocked the execution of "Workflow as Component" components when integrating the component from …

RCE 10.4.0

We are happy to announce the release of RCE 10.4.0 (Green Monkey). This release includes the brand new Workflow Integration Editor, a new and improved console command parser, a preview of the new Event Log, and a number of bug fixes and minor improvements.

Please see GitHub for …

RCE 10.3.1

RCE 10.3.1 (Green Monkey) has been released. In this maintenance release we improved the logging system, improving its robustness during startup and possibly its performance in situations where log entries could be written rapidly, e.g., during workflow execution on busy servers. Furthermore, we migrated the third party …

Clarification of our Version Support / EOL Policy

While we regularly recommend upgrading RCE to the latest release, we would like to introduce more explicit information about RCE's upgrade and versioning policy. This is intended to support RCE users and administrators in their upgrade decisions and planning.

Please note that this policy will be refined and adapted as …

RCE 10.3.0

We are happy to announce the recent release of RCE 10.3.0 (Green Monkey). Besides a number of bugfixes and minor improvements, this release includes a completely reworked workflow palette, the ability to automatically generate network configuration snippets, improvements in Tool Integration and a rework of the System Monitoring …

RCE 10.2.4

We are happy to announce the latest version of RCE 10.2.4. In this maintenance release we have fixed some problems with the uplink connections and improved their stability. We also fixed some minor issues related to SSH login as well as workflow execution. You can find the technical …

RCE 10.2.3

We are pleased to announce the recent release of RCE 10.2.3. In this maintenance release, we further improved the stability of uplink connections, particularly in situations with large amounts of transferred data or with low available bandwidth. Moreover, we fixed some minor issues in the generic optimizer. You …

RCE 10.2.2

We are pleased to announce the recent release of RCE 10.2.2. In this maintenance release, we fixed a memory leak and updated some dependencies. You can find the technical changelog on github.

If you are using RCE 10.x you can update your installation using "Help -> Check for …