Global tech firm, Altair, which specialises in simulation solutions, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI), has inked a new technical partnership agreement with the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team upon their return to F1 2021 season.

The team engineers will be utilising the Altair Grid Engine to further optimise the team's HPC infrastructure by leading with workload scheduling as well as management solutions. This requires a lot of complex simulations using some very intricate software, and that's way before the drivers get into the cars and hit the track. We're talking tens of thousands of simulations plus other compute-intensive stuff.

According to Bill Peters, Chief Technology Officer for the Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team, "Across our aerodynamics department, we’re hugely reliant on high-performance computing to manage intensive workloads. That includes the 10 terabytes of data the team produces on a daily basis. Altair’s solutions give us a consistent and powerful infrastructure, enabling our team to gain strategic and performance advantages within a limit of 30 teraflops by achieving higher throughput, smaller wait-times, and reduced downtime."

By using the Altair Grid Engine, Aston Martin is able to conduct simulations for things like wind tunnels, vehicle aerodynamics, tyre performance, and many more with greater efficiency. The Grid Engine also helped the team by achieving 97% of sustained HPC infrastructure utilisation while managing 10 terabytes of data on a daily basis. That's a whole lot of data to go through!