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14/12/2006
Super-brain for
BMW Sauber F1.
Hinwil.
The
BMW
Sauber
F1Team has a new
super-brain. According
to the current top-500
list of supercomputers,
Albert2, which was intro-
duced to international
media representatives in
Hinwil,is the fastest
com-
puter in industrial use in
Europe. Albert2has
more than 256 nodes
with two Intel Xeon 5160
processors each. It has
a maximum computing
power of 12,288 giga-
flops.To achive the
same computing power
as Albert
2
musters in a
second, all 1.3 million
inhabitants of the city of
Munich would have to
multiply two
eight-digit
numbers every
three-
and-a-half seconds for
an entire year.
BMW Motorsport
Director Mario Theissen:
“Aerodynamics have a
crucial influence on the
performance of modern
Formula1 vehicles, with
experimental work in the
wind tunnel and com-
putational fluid dynamics
(CFD) complementing
each other. The launch
of Albert2means a deci-
sive reinforcement of
our CFD capacity. For
the new season, we
have set ourselves the
goal of further reducing
the gap to the top. Our
new supercomputer is
an important tool which
will support us in this.”
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The year 2006
>> 03
>> 02
15/12/2006
BMW plant in Berlin breaks the
100,000 barrier.
Munich/Berlin.
For the first time in the history of
the BMW Group, more than 100,000 motorcycles
were produced in the Berlin plant in a single year.
The 100,000th motorcycle, an R1200 R, rolled off the
assembly lines on 15 December 2006. The motor-
cycle segment’s sales also broke the 100,000 barrier
by the end of the year. Deliveries of 100,064 motor-
cycles represented a new high. In 2006, total BMW
motorcycle output since 1923 reached the two mil-
lion mark. By the end of the year, 2,061,977 motor-
cycles had been produced; 1,616,016 of them had
rolled off the assembly lines of the motorcycle plant
in Berlin-Spandau since 1969.