Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team Accelerates High Performance Computing with Altair
Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI), announced today a new technical partnership agreement with Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team, who has returned to the world’s most prestigious motorsport series for the 2021 season.
Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team engineers are using Altair Grid Engine™ to optimize the team’s HPC infrastructure with its workload scheduling and management solution.
Modern Grand Prix racing has prioritized the construction of the most fuel- and energy-efficient cars, with a lower total cost. Establishing that efficiency occurs long before the car hits the track, where teams are running complex simulations using an optimized compute environment.
“Across our aerodynamics department, we’re hugely reliant on high-performance computing to manage intensive workloads, said Bill Peters, Chief Technology Officer, Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team. “That includes the ten terabytes of data the team produces on a daily basis. Altair’s solutions give us a consistent and powerful infrastructure, enabling our team to gain strategic and performance advantages within a limit of 30 teraflops by achieving higher throughput, smaller wait-times, and reduced downtime.”
Altair Grid Engine empowers Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team’s engineering department to ensure the tens of thousands of simulations and other compute-intensive tasks are consistently and correctly sequenced and coordinated. It provides timely and efficient access to HPC, critical to powering simulations like windtunnels, vehicle aerodynamics, tire performance, as well as fine-tuning crucial design elements. HPC also powers full-car simulations, which creates a real-world simulator; allowing drivers such as Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel to understand how design changes will impact race-day performance of their AMR21 cars.
“The impressive Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team operates in an environment where every split-second counts, not just on the racetrack, but in terms of rapid and informed design decisions utilizing HPC,” said Sam Mahalingam, Chief Technical Officer, Altair. “As Altair offers the industry’s most comprehensive HPC toolset, we are proud to be part of the story and will be cheering for the team over every lap of the Formula One season.”
As a result of utilizing Altair Grid Engine, Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team’s overall engineering work throughput is faster, the most urgent requirements and results are prioritized, and applications and resources are used efficiently. Altair has helped the team to:
- Achieve a sustained 97 percent utilization of HPC infrastructure
- Properly manage the 10 terabytes of data the team produces daily
- Gain strategic and performance advantages within Formula One’s 25 teraflop limits by achieving higher throughput, reduced wait times and downtime
To learn more, attend Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team’s presentation, “On and Off the Track, Every Second Counts: The Critical Role of HPC Optimization” at the Altair Global HPC Summit May 11-12. To register, visit https://web.altair.com/hpc-summit-2021.