Big Data at High Speeds:
Racing With the Edge of Technology
HPE partners with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team to enhance the team's operational efficiency, car performance and overall technology capability. See the action when you tune in to a Formula One™ Grand Prix race, where world champion drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas will put the wheels to the test for a spot on the winner’s podium.
A storied history,
a record-breaking team
Since its inception in the 1930s, Mercedes-Benz has been a championship-winning team.
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport has achieved Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships every year from 2014 to 2018.
Today, the team designs and builds the car and engine it races, and continues to be one of the most successful teams on the circuit. Its star driver Lewis Hamilton is considered to be one of the greatest in Formula One history.
2010
19 Victories
6 World
Championships
today’s Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport factory team debuts
in 2016 set record for number of wins in a single season
won by Lewis Hamilton
The engine behind
the horsepower
Winning requires sophisticated auto engineering and shrewd on the-track strategy.
Because Formula One FIA regulations are so regulated, data analytics has become a critical piece. Today’s teams use on-board sensors to capture data on every aspect of their cars’ performance.
2 seconds
average improvement in car speed per season*
CONTINUOUS
implementation of design improvements*
Perfect Car Design
with computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations
by gathering & analyzing on-track test data
Inform Racing Strategies
with data
Make Smart Real-Time
Race-Day Decisions
To gain the competitive advantage, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport pushes continually to invent, test, and implement design innovations as quickly and cost-effectively as possible.
Data systems to fuel the right decisions—and fast
For Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport to win races, it must have the right IT. From simulations to car design to trackside analytics, the team depends on data.
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport partnered with HPE to equip its engineers and strategists with state-of-the-art technology. Their first priority: racecar engineering.
Smoking tires, blistering speeds, split-second decisions: few things are more exciting than watching Formula One racing champions fly around a Grand Prix track, maneuvering for any possible advantage as the laps tick by. And now, with HPE on the team, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport has the technology it needs to deliver the heroic, race-day experiences its fans adore.
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Priority #1
Speed up workflows for modeling and simulations with implementation of
HPE 6500 platform
Priority #2
HPE Pointnext consolidated 16 devices and their workloads onto a single HPE Edgeline system to support trackside computing in the pit
Result
Under 24 hours per
pre-event simulation
to enable more simulations
Result
The architecture
reduced the team’s
trackside IT footprint,
helping to control transport costs
*From Matt Harris (Head of IT – Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport) transcript VIP Video studio recording. Discover LV 2018
Result
The architecture
reduced the team’s
trackside IT footprint,
helping to control transport costs
Priority #2
HPE Pointnext consolidated
16 devices and their workloads onto a single HPE Edgeline system to support trackside computing in the pit
Result
Under 24 hours per
pre-event simulation
to enable more simulations
Priority #1
Speed up workflows for modeling and simulations
with implementation of
HPE 6500 platform