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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Release 5.1.0

GUI

  • Added a view to execute RCE console commands
  • Added miscellaneous context menu entries for faster access to key features (such as integrating a new tool or creating the workflow examples project)
  • Fixed short cut for renaming workflow nodes (it is just F2 now)
  • Improved visibility of self-connections of components …
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Release 5.0.0

Workflow components

  • Added an "Output Writer" component to write directories and files to the local file system
  • Optimizer
    • The iteration count is now available as an output
    • Added support for the Vector data type (to support multiple (hundreds) of design variables)
    • Added support for start values and optimal solution outputs …
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Release 4.2.0

  • Added documentation for user and developer (see new documentation folder)
  • implemented IP whitelisting
  • implemented automatic network reconnect
  • made upload block size configurable (see user guide)
  • added service/daemon scripts including installation scripts
  • General tweaks and bugfixes
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Release 4.1.0

  • Component connections can now be directly selected and deleted in the workflow editor (required using the connection dialog before)
  • Improved automatic behaviour when connecting components in the editor
  • Improved handling of special cases in data management browser
  • Running RCE instances can now be shutdown by running the executable again with …
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Release 4.0.0

GUI

  • Added a wizard to simplify the creation of new workflows
  • Extended Network view
    • Workflow components are shown per node (for own node: locally installed and published ones; for remote nodes: published ones)
    • Connections to other nodes are shown
    • Connections to others can be managed (added, edited, deleted, started, stopped …
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Release 3.2.0

Changelog

  • improved handling of long-lasting remote component initializations
  • fixed validation errors not showing up in log
  • fixed connection removal via Undo
  • workflows are properly disposed on shutdown now
  • improved default workspace locations of "launch" configurations
  • fixed double-click in read-only workflow view switching to properties view
  • changed behaviour of Script component …
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Release 3.1.0

Changelog

  • Fixed bug regarding boolean values sent within a workflow (workflow components always retrieved 'false' even the previous component sent 'true')
  • Added support for workflow control from within scripts executed with the Script component again
  • GUI misc: mark GUI elements red if validation error exists (instead of yellow which is …
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