Simulation Technology Drives Success at Red Bull Racing
So which hardware systems do you use?
Our partners for computer hardware are HP and IBM. Our CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) models are usually the most computationally expensive, so for these we typically use an IBM Blade cluster system, with several thousand AMD processors. Cluster efficiency is controlled by automated scheduling and management software from Platform Computing. Both hardware suppliers work with MSC to ensure that the Nastran and Adams products are also tuned for optimal computational performance on their systems.
And how do you organize the computations?
We have a simulation database, in which all computations are arranged and stored. This is both for efficiency and quality assurance, ensuring that each simulation is efficiently managed and auditable to the appropriate input sources and output results. In this way we are able to quickly interpret the findings of our simulations, and are confident of the integrity of the data.
