The computing power required to design and develop a modern-day Formula One car operates at NASA-level intelligence and demands nuclear-grade power.
In an ever-competitive category where tenths of a second are measured in millions of dollars spent, CFD – Computational Fluid Dynamics – have come to save precious wind-tunnel time, itself annually limited by the FIA in the interest of cost-saving to 30 teraflops of double-precision (64-bit) computing for simulation purposes, and only permissibly executed via CPU, and not GPUs.
Following February’s F1 pre-season test, however, not a single supercomputer down the pit lane could have predicted that the Aston Martin team would have rocketed over the season shutdown from a lowly seventh in the 2022 constructor’s championship to sporting the second-fastest car of 2023.
The new signee for 2023, immutable double champ Fernando Alonso, has bested Ferrari throughout, and on all but one occasion Mercedes, to rack up a
