Lets just say we wouldnt be investing this kind of money in this capability if it didnt make good business sense, says Robert Kruse, executive director of GMs North American Engineering.
But the supercomputer is notable for more than just speeding cars to market. For one thing, GM has taken an unusual approach to harnessing its computing power. Normally, major manufacturing firms are content to rely on much more disparate systems.
What is special about this is that it is a single system -- all heavy manufacturers with a big design function usually have very large aggregate computing facilities, which spread out, says Jonathan Eunice, principal analyst at Illuminata Inc.
But with the sophisticated nature of the modeling applications being run by GMs crash-test engineers, a centralized approach was the only answer. There are applications that are well suited to this type of centralized supercomputer, such as airflow and computational fluid dynamics, Eunice says.
Also noteworthy, the system places GM in the top 10 of the top 500 supercomputer sites -- an area that is still very much dominated by public bodies and research organizations.
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