Producing the ultimate Racing car is the Holy Grail sought by every racing team in the world. When you consider that each car can have over 4,500 components that can be modified by up to 70 per cent throughout the season, it’s hardly surprising that the competition off the track to improve aerodynamic efficiency, speed and consistency of performance is just as ferocious as the desire to win every championship point.
"Because our performance is so reliant on computational power, it was critical that we found a scalable solution that would enable ACFD to effectively upgrade the solutions keeping pace with technology without unnecessarily discarding computing hardware. We approached Compusys because of the company’s specialist experience in high performance computing within research environments, and particularly its use of commodity PC clusters in this arena. Their scale-out approach to computing resource management was extremely attractive because we intended to upgrade our cluster every 12 -18 months and wished to do so cost effectively. The Compusys Cluster inherently supports slave nodes being added and removed allowing us to upgrade individual nodes and ‘sell’ the commodity hardware released to other parts of our business" |