Triple Eight Race Engineering Was Able to Design and Build a Winning Race Car in Record Time, With Workstations Running AMD Opteron Processors and ATI Professional Graphics

Triple Eight Race Engineering began developing its car for the 2007 race season but hit a major snag when the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) adopted a new set of regulations. As a result, the car it had been racing could no longer compete and they were forced to switch to an entirely different model, with a mere six month design-to-racetrack development cycle. Triple Eight put their AMD Opteron processor-based workstations with ATI FireGL graphics accelerators to the test, modeling all car components in Autodesk Inventor, a complex 3-D CAD design package. After a great deal of success with the AMD-based workstations, Triple Eight decided to implement AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant servers in its data center.