At the end of 2005 BMW acquired the Sauber F1 Team. In its debut season the racing outfit finished in fifth place in the Constructor’s Championship – a remarkable gain for a new team. With the support of Dalco AG, its Official Supplier, the team had built a supercomputer called Albert in 2004 to analyse the effects of car aerodynamic design on performance. In late 2006, along with Intel, its Official Corporate Sponsor, the team upgraded its supercomputer to Albert 2. Powered by 512 Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 series with two cores and unveiled in December 2006, Albert 2 had a total of 1,024 processor cores.
Challenge
BMW Sauber F1 Team wanted to enhance the performance of its supercomputer, Albert2, to galvanise its ambition of becoming a leading F1 team.
Solution
The solution was a Supercomputer upgrade. Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series with four cores was added to Albert2 which created a more powerful Intel Supercomputer, Albert3.
Results
Albert3 can produce peak computing power of 50.7 Tflops, so simulations can now be run up to four times faster, which in turn delivers greater design insight when developing racing cars
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