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Formula One Racing Just a Matter of Crunching the Numbers

Posted by michael on from the ticket-to-ride dept.

Si24601 writes "Sauber Petronas Formula 1 team have launched Albert, their new supercomputer. With aerodynamics contributing a claimed 75% of the performance of the current bread of cars, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations have become increasingly important. Dalco's 530 AMD Opteron processor, 2.3 Tflop/s Supercomputer, with 1 TB RAM and 11 TB of storage, may just be up to the task." Other readers submitted links to stories on F1 Live and Formula1.com.

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  1. Re:Amazing! by pipingguy · · Score: 0, Troll


    Why should I, as an American, give a shit about all that hypertuned tiny engine stuff when we all know that bigger is better?

    There's just no substitution for cubic inches, as the Chrysler hemis are now proving.

    /troll