High Performance Simulation http://hpc-project.blog.blogspirit-business.com/blog/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:29:23 +0200 www.blogspirit-business.com All Rights Reserved http://hpc-project.blog.blogspirit-business.com/archive/2008/05/16/supercomputing-is-shaping-formula-1-cars-what-s-next.html http://hpc-project.blog.blogspirit-business.com/archive/2008/05/16/supercomputing-is-shaping-formula-1-cars-what-s-next.html noreply@blog.blogspirit-business.com (HPC PROJECT) Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 11:41:33 +0200 <p align="justify">As the F1 racing season goes on, it becomes clearer that the shape of the cars used in F1 is evolving and can sometimes be counterintuitive. Take the BMW Sauber F1 car – the shape of the front wing and the winglets is conceived to optimize aerodynamics in a new way. The car is clearly different, and evolves between two races.</p> <p align="justify">To achieve such optimization, BMW Sauber uses the services of ALBERT2, a 2048 cores (Intel Xeon) supercomputer, with a maximum&#8230;</p>