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LinuxElectrons: HP Linux SuperComputer Designs BMW Race Car

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 18, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]

“At the BMW WilliamsF1 team’s headquarters, HP announced it
played a critical role in the construction and aerodynamic
modelling of the groundbreaking new shape of the FW26 car.

“Using an HP Linux-based supercomputing platform, the BMW
WilliamsF1 team has supplemented traditional modelling techniques
used in wind tunnel experiments with the ability to design,
simulate and test in a virtual environment. As a result, the
WilliamsF1 design team was able to develop the radical FW26 car by
maximizing the time available for predictive aerodynamic design
processes…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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