Ultimately, I think this is a step in the wrong direction for F1 from a
safety point of view. F1 has made HUGE strides in safety since the death
of Ayrton Senna. So much so that Robert Kubica hit a wall almost head-on
at 180MPH and walked away from it in 2007. (Google the video it's pretty
amazing).
If they eliminate wind tunnel testing altogether, it's just a matter of
time until a bug in a CFD code allows an silly engineering error to lead
to a catastrophic accident on the track, something at a wind tunnel test
would catch. Wind tunnel testing is much more foolproof (humanproof?)
than code.
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Prentice
On 10/14/2015 03:40 AM, John Hearns wrote:
Interesting article on HPCwire
http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/10/07/formula-one-debates-cfd-only-future/
i don;t see it myself - wind tunnels are an important part of the aero
engineers toolbox, and they don't run them for fun.
There are interesting comments regarding an energy cap though,
which could be interesting for us in the HPC industry.
I am looking at slurm scheduling at the moment - for the plugin which
allows you to select the performance governor on a per-job basis.
Could be interesting :
Jenson Button: "Hey guys. We need that latest front wing
configuration. Run it at the maximum power setting"
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