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NASCAR Team uses Microsoft's High Performance Cluster for race simulations

Telecomworldwire, June 30, 2008

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-30 June 2008-NASCAR Team uses Microsoft's High Performance Cluster for race simulations(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

The NASCAR Chip Ganassi Racing team is running race simulations on a High Performance Cluster based on Microsoft's (Nasdaq:MSFT) Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

The server, running on a 5-node cluster, is able to simulate an entire race in 30 minutes, enabling the team to simulate various combinations of conditions and set-ups in the days running up to a race. If conditions change on the morning of the race, the cluster can run the simulation fast enough to allow engineers a last minute run-through.

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The racing team worked with its simulation software provider, Stackpole Engineering Services Inc, and with Microsoft to modify the software to run on Windows Compute Cluster 2003, reducing the time for each simulation run from 24 hours, more than 38 times faster.

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