F1 Technology - detailed article
04-04-2017, 05:28 PM
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F1 Technology - detailed article
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/04...-1-technology/
Did you know F1 had regulations on the computing power teams can use?
A lot of interesting pics and details in here.
Did you know F1 had regulations on the computing power teams can use?
A lot of interesting pics and details in here.
As you can imagine, then, after some 60 years of trying to outwit the feds, Formula 1 today is governed by a rather long list of regulations—hundreds of pages of them, in fact.
For example, each Formula 1 team is only allowed to use 25 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) of double precision (64-bit) computing power for simulating car aerodynamics. 25 teraflops isn't a lot of processing power, in the grand scheme of supercomputers: it's about comparable to 25 of the original Nvidia Titan graphics cards (the new Pascal-based cards are no good at double-precision maths).
For example, each Formula 1 team is only allowed to use 25 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) of double precision (64-bit) computing power for simulating car aerodynamics. 25 teraflops isn't a lot of processing power, in the grand scheme of supercomputers: it's about comparable to 25 of the original Nvidia Titan graphics cards (the new Pascal-based cards are no good at double-precision maths).
04-04-2017, 06:19 PM
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Wonderful article and thanks for sharing. I'm a very BIG F1 fan with few local fans, who are into the details of F1. I expect some positive changes from the new ownership, yet, I realize that Bernie did a wonderful job promoting the sport. Times have changed however, on to the future, hopefully with sound and not electric.
