American Power Conversion (APC) said that Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, the Formula One racing team, has selected APC’s InfraStruXure solution for its new datacentre in Maranello, Italy. 

Capable of cooling 20kW (kilowatts) per rack, InfraStruXure with integrated cooling will serve as the physical infrastructure for Ferrari’s hardware platform that performs the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations essential to the aerodynamic modelling of its championship-winning F1 cars, APC said in a statement. 

InfraStruXure provides an “on-demand” architecture for power, cooling, management and services in a rack-optimised design scalable in server capacity. 

This scalability takes much of the guesswork over planning, delays and risk out of installing critical applications, and is optimised for today’s high-density computing installations, the company claimed. 

Ferrari implemented a large supercomputer using AMD Opteron-based Linux server clusters for CFD simulations. With each installed rack generating 10kW of heat, APC’s InfraStruXure proved to be one of the only solutions capable of meeting Ferrari’s requirements, APC said.