[PLUG] This is seriously good

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On Thursday 27 July 2006 14:26, Anand Nene wrote:
> To add to that, the pinnacle of motorsport, F1 uses Linux for its
> internal systems. AMD Opteron's working in a grid, comprised of
> several hundreds computing nodes running on linux in an attempt
> to advance Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations, which
> is a critical factor complementing aerodynamics testing... (The
> telemetry transmits 100+ MB of data per lap * total no of ~70 laps
> at around ~80+ seconds per lap, The DAS systems) Some data!
>
> As a side note, these systems were first used by Ferrari and Sauber
> (BMW-Sauber), brought in line by their technology partner AMD (now
> the official technology partner for FIA), running on Linux.


Duh.. any decent multitasking OS could do that.. 

G,D n R..

Shridhar

Begun the flame war has !! :D