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Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-with-the-flow dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "These days, most competitive swimmers wear some type of body suit to reduce high skin-friction drag from water. And makers of swimwear are already busy working on new models for the Olympics 2008. According to Textile & Apparel, Speedo is even using a supercomputer to refine its designs. Its engineers run Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program on an SGI Altix system."

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  1. Slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A company uses supercomputer.. wow..

    Is that news?

    I used a supercomputer to play tic-tac-toe.

  2. Gee, if you have until 2008... by dsheeks · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seems like you wouldn't really need a supercomputer. My guess is there are more important things to do in the world than waste computing resources on swim suit design.

  3. Re:Roland Piquepaille & Speedo by fm6 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yours is the first of several comments manifesting a rather a lot of homosexual anxiety. Proof that deep down, most of us are fags.

  4. Re:Nice to see by MustardMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude... a guy in a speedo is NEVER nice to see. Ever.

  5. Disgusting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Why doesn't speedo put it's supercomputer time to some good use, like finding ways to end poverty or help more efficiently after natural disasters like tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorism or volcanic eruptions?

    In a world where the US is still being niggardly over paying slavery reparations, how can anyone find it acceptable to flagrantly waste resources in this way?