Data insights drive Aston Martin F1 with NetApp

In Formula One racing, where cars move through a racecourse at speeds that can exceed 230 miles per hour, every millisecond matters. In its quest to maximize race car performance, the Aston Martin Formula One Team relies on Net App Inc.’s infrastructure for data insights that can bring it first across the finish line.

Cesar Cernuda, president of NetApp, and Stuart Bailey, head of infrastructure at Aston Martin Formula One, talk with theCUBE about data insights.

“Every aspect of the business is reliant on it to some extent,” said Stuart Bailey (pictured, right), head of infrastructure for the Aston Martin Formula One Team (AMF1). “The car’s made up of 15,000 parts, there’s a lot of assemblies, a lot of drawings that come out of that. Then, we put that into our simulation and testing environment, so we’re getting data out of that as well, and then it goes to the track, goes into the wind tunnel. It’s about the right data, right place, right time and the right people having access to it.”

Bailey spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and Rob Strechay at the “Architecting Outcomes in the Era of Intelligence” event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Cesar Cernuda (left), president of NetApp, and they discussed how the race team’s partnership with NetApp is powering performance on and off the track. (* Disclosure below.)

Managing trackside data insights

Over the course of its four-year partnership with NetApp, the Aston Martin F1 Team has relied on a range of technologies in the company’s portfolio. These solutions include the NetApp Astra Trident storage orchestrator and the company’s control plane for workload management.

The amount of data generated by one Formula One car is significant. The steering wheel alone has 28 sensors, and the Aston Martin team must be able to process and analyze 100 megabytes of data per lap, according to Cernuda.

“Many of our customers … need to build an intelligent data infrastructure that can really help to operationalize and work with their data anywhere, and it’s very interesting because that’s precisely what Aston Martin Formula One needs,” Cernuda said. “We’ve been using high-performance computing to really help them in different simulations of the different components for the cars to help them compete.”

The experience of the Aston Martin Formula One team with AI and NetApp is leading both organizations to pursue further use cases for high-performance computing. Additional applications include a greater understanding of how airflow moves over a car and how the vehicle reacts to external loads and pressures, according to Bailey.

“We’re in a position now where we’re looking at what the AI opportunities would be in Formula One with NetApp,” Bailey said. “We’re very much at the stage where we’re looking at what workloads could fit in terms of prediction, and a project we have in flight right now is refreshing or deploying our next-gen high-performance compute capability.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the “Architecting Outcomes in the Era of Intelligence” event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the “Architecting Outcomes in the Era of Intelligence” event. Neither NetApp Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

Photo: SiliconANGLE

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