This isn’t really automotive, but I thought it was pretty cool (no pun intended)……Dan
The Agilent Technologies modular E4360 Solar Array Simulator offers the most power (up to 1200W) in the smallest package (2U high). Designed for customers testing a satellite’s power system, the Agilent E4360 solar array simulator allows R&D engineers, manufacturing engineers and system […]

AUDI AG recently built the auto industry’s fastest supercomputer to advance safety standards. Crucial in optimizing car safety, the new system is based on ESI Group’s PAM-CRASH 2G simulation software and an HP Cluster Platform 3000BL system, providing 15.36 teraflop/s of computing performance for crash simulation models of Audi. The supercomputer implementation places the leading […]

LMS International’s NVH Observer is a subscription-based database with vehicle NVH benchmarking information. Currently, the database contains fourteen reference vehicles with plans to increase it by at least 8 vehicles on an annual basis. For each vehicle in the database, NVH Observer includes 6,000 curves such as spectra, orders, sensitivities, TPA noise contributions, modes and […]

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) was approved for Phase II funding by the U.S. Department of Transportation to test technologies that help passenger car and commercial truck drivers avoid crashes.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration are conducting the initiative, funded as part of the […]