Helping Infiniti Red Bull Racing stay ahead of the competition

HP has helped Infiniti Red Bull Racing - the company that designs, engineers and builds the chassis for the Infiniti Red Bull Racing Formula One team - to improve the aerodynamics of its cars with an HP high performance computing (HPC) solution.

The HP HPC solution enables Infiniti Red Bull Racing to simulate what happens on the race track, which is vital to improving the performance of the team’s cars. Replicating these scenarios virtually using computational fluid dynamics reduces costs, saves time and boosts efficiency, enabling Infiniti Red Bull Racing to respond rapidly to the growing demands of Formula One racing and stay ahead of the competition.

“Infiniti Red Bull Racing is a company where decisions need to be made fast," said Matt Cadieux, chief information officer, Infiniti Red Bull Racing. “We need a powerful, scalable platform that supports our advanced IT applications, and expanding our HPC footprint allows us to run more jobs, more quickly.”

Supported by HP’s HPC Competency Centre in Grenoble, Infiniti Red Bull Racing added a further 270 HP ProLiant BL465 server blades to their existing clusters for virtual testing. These resilient, high performance blades utilize AMD processors optimized specifically to meet the changing requirements of Formula One racing.
“Companies like Infiniti Red Bull Racing require huge amounts of compute resources to achieve their expected performance, as well as a balanced mix of advanced technologies, and the expertise to integrate them,” says Philippe Trautmann, EMEA Sales Director, HPC & Performance Optimized Datacenters, HP. “The scalability of HP’s open standards-based HPC solution supports Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s constantly evolving design and manufacturing activities, and will enable the team to handle more complex simulations in the future.”