High-Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting Solu­ti­ons Enable Ame­ri­can For­mu­la One Team to Com­pe­te at Pin­na­cle of Motorsports

SEATTLE, Oct. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Glo­bal super­com­pu­ter lea­der Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) today announ­ced a working rela­ti­onship with Haas F1 Team in the FIA For­mu­la One World Cham­pi­on­ship. The third-year Ame­ri­can team will use the com­pu­ta­tio­nal capa­ci­ty of a Cray® CS500™ clus­ter super­com­pu­ter, which uses AMD EPYC™ 7000 pro­ces­sors to hand­le its lar­ge com­pu­ta­tio­nal flu­id dyna­mics (CFD) simu­la­ti­ons begin­ning with the 2019 season.

With Cray, Haas F1 Team can effi­ci­ent­ly per­form CFD ana­ly­sis to more accu­ra­te­ly run wind tun­nel tests, pre­dict and redu­ce drag, and impro­ve aero­dy­na­mics. The orga­niza­ti­on cho­se Cray for its per­for­mance and its sca­le-up capability.

“Every year we’re tas­ked with buil­ding the fas­test and most effi­ci­ent race car in the most tech­no­lo­gi­cal­ly advan­ced racing series in the world,” said Gary Foo­te, Chief Infor­ma­ti­on Offi­cer, Haas F1 Team. “We’re plea­sed to part­ner with Cray and uti­li­ze their HPC solu­ti­ons. The dou­ble pre­cis­i­on com­pu­ting power of our new sys­tem will help sol­ve our most deman­ding CFD and data challenges.”

With racing being one of the most tech­no­lo­gy-empowered and adre­na­line-hea­vy sports in the world, it is cri­ti­cal that For­mu­la One teams are equip­ped with an infra­struc­tu­re that allows them to deve­lop sta­te-of-the-art race cars. Haas F1 Team per­forms detail­ed aero­dy­na­mic ana­ly­sis, which must be con­ti­nuous­ly updated in order to remain com­pe­ti­ti­ve. By using the relia­ble and effi­ci­ent Cray and AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor-based sys­tem, Haas F1 Team can maxi­mi­ze the bene­fits of its CFD ana­ly­sis within the impo­sed limits of the FIA.

The Cray CS500 super­com­pu­ter, equip­ped with a Cray® Clus­terS­tor™ L300 sto­rage sys­tem and AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, is plan­ned for deli­very to Haas F1 in Decem­ber 2018. The com­bi­na­ti­on of the system’s design and abili­ty to hand­le the most deman­ding simu­la­ti­on and ana­ly­tics workloads and the high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting exper­ti­se of Cray helps the Haas F1 team opti­mi­ze aero­dy­na­mics and more accu­ra­te­ly pre­dict and redu­ce drag, down­force and flow pat­terns around its race cars.

“Having led the indus­try in desig­ning the most advan­ced super­com­pu­ting sys­tems in the world over the last four deca­des, Cray under­stands the simu­la­ti­on, per­for­mance and sca­le requi­re­ments the Haas FI team needs to meet their mis­si­on requi­re­ments,” said Fred Kohout, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and CMO at Cray. “We’re proud to pro­vi­de the Haas F1 team with our best-in-class HPC and sto­rage solu­ti­ons, so the team can bene­fit from on-track per­for­mance in buil­ding win­ning For­mu­la One race cars.”

About Cray Inc.
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) com­bi­nes com­pu­ta­ti­on and crea­ti­vi­ty so visio­na­ries can keep asking ques­ti­ons that chall­enge the limits of pos­si­bi­li­ty. Dra­wing on more than 45 years of expe­ri­ence, Cray deve­lo­ps the world’s most advan­ced super­com­pu­ters, pushing the boun­da­ries of per­for­mance, effi­ci­en­cy and sca­la­bi­li­ty. Cray con­ti­nues to inno­va­te today at the con­ver­gence of data and dis­co­very, offe­ring a com­pre­hen­si­ve port­fo­lio of super­com­pu­ters, high-per­for­mance sto­rage, data ana­ly­tics and arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence solu­ti­ons. Go to www.cray.com for more information.

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