Swansea University: Faster than the Speed of Sound
Swansea University turns to Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to bring the world’s fastest land speed attempt back on track
Several years ago, Richard Noble, OBE, and Andy Green, OBE, were approached by Lord Drayson, UK Minister of Science, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, to help inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers among the UK’s schoolchildren.
Challenges
• Project delays. The BLOODHOUND SSC is on a tight three-year deadline. However, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) design, carried out by Swansea University using an in-house FLITE aero-dynamics system, was being slowed down by the university’s computing platform. For example, it could take as long as a week to solve certain problems because of their scale
• Educational sponsor. The project’s overarching aim is to inspire future generations of schoolchildren to become scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. As such, it needed a sponsor that placed the same importance on the education of children in scientific discipline
Solutions
• Industry-leading platform. The project began using a cluster housed at the Intel UK headquarters, which is based on the Intel SR2600UR server platform and powered by 128 Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 series.
• Technology partner. Intel became the official technology sponsor of the BLOODHOUND Project due to its long-standing commitment to driving new educational initiatives the world over.
Impact
• Performance boost. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-powered SR2600UR platform provided five times faster performance than the university’s in-house platform.
• Faster problem solving. Equational problems that took approximately a week to solve on the university’s in-house platform were typically solved overnight on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series platform, bringing the project back on schedule.
• New headquarters. As an official technology sponsor, Intel supplied the equipment for the BLOODHOUND Project’s new headquarters, including workstations, wireless infrastructure, laptops, and service set-up.
• Successful take-up. To date, approximately 3,500 schools and youth organizations throughout the UK have signed up to participate in the BLOODHOUND Education Program.
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Swansea University: Faster than the Speed of Sound
Swansea University turns to Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to bring the world’s fastest land speed attempt back on track
Several years ago, Richard Noble, OBE, and Andy Green, OBE, were approached by Lord Drayson, UK Minister of Science, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, to help inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers among the UK’s schoolchildren.
Challenges
• Project delays. The BLOODHOUND SSC is on a tight three-year deadline. However, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) design, carried out by Swansea University using an in-house FLITE aero-dynamics system, was being slowed down by the university’s computing platform. For example, it could take as long as a week to solve certain problems because of their scale
• Educational sponsor. The project’s overarching aim is to inspire future generations of schoolchildren to become scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. As such, it needed a sponsor that placed the same importance on the education of children in scientific discipline
Solutions
• Industry-leading platform. The project began using a cluster housed at the Intel UK headquarters, which is based on the Intel SR2600UR server platform and powered by 128 Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 series.
• Technology partner. Intel became the official technology sponsor of the BLOODHOUND Project due to its long-standing commitment to driving new educational initiatives the world over.
Impact
• Performance boost. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-powered SR2600UR platform provided five times faster performance than the university’s in-house platform.
• Faster problem solving. Equational problems that took approximately a week to solve on the university’s in-house platform were typically solved overnight on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series platform, bringing the project back on schedule.
• New headquarters. As an official technology sponsor, Intel supplied the equipment for the BLOODHOUND Project’s new headquarters, including workstations, wireless infrastructure, laptops, and service set-up.
• Successful take-up. To date, approximately 3,500 schools and youth organizations throughout the UK have signed up to participate in the BLOODHOUND Education Program.
Read the full Swansea University: Faster than the Speed of Sound Case Study.
