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Linux and Formula One (ITPro)Linux and Formula One (ITPro)Posted Apr 29, 2008 23:35 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: Linux and Formula One (ITPro)
That's funny. As I understand it, F1 recently declared that in future races all its cars must have exactly the same engine controller, running exactly the same software ... provided by Microsoft. I wonder if they bothered to ask any of the people actually involved, first.
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Linux and Formula One (ITPro) Posted May 1, 2008 8:32 UTC (Thu) by amimjf (guest, #506) [Link] It is a common ECU, but its not made by Microsoft. http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/4/7577.html
Linux and Formula One (ITPro) Posted May 1, 2008 16:03 UTC (Thu) by amurphy (subscriber, #29715) [Link] The hardware is from McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) and the software is from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/pressreleases/M... Also, the article read like an ad for SGI.
Linux and Formula One (ITPro) Posted May 10, 2008 13:41 UTC (Sat) by rev24 (guest, #43165) [Link] Exactly. "...push the equations to their limits" - I've never seen the word "equation" in such a context before. These passages just scream marketing.
Linux and Formula One (ITPro) Posted May 2, 2008 21:49 UTC (Fri) by kbob (guest, #1770) [Link] 99% of the computing power in F1 is not in the cars, but in server farms where components and subsystems are being continuously designed and simulated, using FEA and CFD codes.
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