Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing

Roland Piquepaille writes "These days, most competitive swimmers wear some type of body suit to reduce high skin-friction drag from water. And makers of swimwear are already busy working on new models for the Olympics 2008. According to Textile & Apparel, Speedo is even using a supercomputer to refine its designs. Its engineers run Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program on an SGI Altix system."

Roland Piquepaille & Speedo

[StikyPad]

Two words I never wanted to see in the same paragraph.

Nice to see

[0racle]

It's nice to see SGI working on winning gold medals in Swimming. They just need to find out how to get rid of the meat bag causing all that drag on their wonderfully designed swimsuits.

Swimsuit Editions?

[redphive]

Does this mean Computer magazines are going to start having yearly swimsuit editions? This could be a good and a bad thing.

Ahh, the differences between men and women

[alshithead]

"Meanwhile, the CFD analysis has already indicated that there is a more separated flow, where the water actually leaves the surface of the swimmer, for females than males, so the designs for male and female suits should be different."

Translation: Boobs and hips create additional drag. Make the suits tighter in the chest and hips for women.

Re:Ahh, the differences between men and women

[tktk]

They should have all swimmers be in the nude. That way, a win or loss can't be blamed on technology in the swimsuit.

Also, it'll increase attention and viewership on the women's swimming and conversely decrease viewship on the men's swimming. A good thing, IMO.

Re:Slow news day?

[Fjornir]

I used a supercomputer to play tic-tac-toe.

Did you win?

Re:Ahh, the differences between men and women

[MustardMan]

Next thing we'll have accusations of people using steroids, not to make them stronger, but to shrink their testicles, to cut down on yambag drag.

Re:Gee, if you have until 2008...

[MyLongNickName]

And, yet, wasting computer resources on hosting and posting on Slashdot is acceptable?

Bah

[Anonymous Coward]

What they need to do is use this computing power to find a way to make competitive swimsuits actually look good on women, instead of hiding all of the good stuff.

Re:Swimsuit Editions?

[Booshi]

ew ew ew ew EWWWWWWWW!
That is a visual I did *not* need!
I don't even wanna think about where they'd put the pocket protector...

*shiver*

childhood limerick...

[lanced]

That reminds me of an old limerick. Sing along if you know it...

Taco,
Burrito,
What's that in your Speedo?

But in this case, it should be...
Jobs,
or Gates,
Who designed your Speedo?

Maybe it doesn't rhyme, but now all of you are thinking of Bill Gates in a thong. Ha.

Womens...

[ResQuad]

Obviously in womens olypic competition they should ban swimsuits all together. Not only would that level the playing field... viewership would SKY ROCKET!!! 10x at least!

hmmm

[dpaton.net]

There's a joke in here somewhere....mumble mumble Cindy Crawford mumble mumble Beowolf cluster mumble mumble Sports Illustrated mumble mumble.

I'm going to karma hell. I don't mind.

For a _swimsuit_?!

[Dorsai65]

Okay, I can see needing a supercomputer for designing Pam Anderson's bra, but not for swimsuits...

Oh, that didn't say competition

[Servo]

Am I the only one that read that as `Swimsuit Competition uses Supercomputer`?

Who is this company?

[TubeSteak]

on an SGI Altix high-performance computing system offered by Silicone Technology.

Silicon Graphics Inc's machines being offered by Silicone Technology?

Is there actually a "Silicone Technology" company?
Or did someone screw up their reporting?

girlsss!!

[Filtrid]

Is it only me, that "SuperComputer Calculated Swimsuits " turns me on ?

Re:It would be traditional.

[Anonymous Coward]

tennis, ping pong, and badmitten

Badmitten? Badmitten?!? WTF is that? Some kind of naughty winter hand apparel? Oh, wait... you're a retard! You meant badminton.
 

Re:Ahh, the differences between men and women

[Anonymous Coward]

I want to see you get modded up, just for your use of the phrase "yambag drag" in a sentence.

Re:Roland Piquepaille & Speedo

[Anonymous Coward]

Results 1 - 2 of about 3 for Roland Piquepaille Speedo fan fiction. (0.37 seconds)

Re:Nice to see

[akorvemaker]

At what point does "Informative" become "Too Much Information"?

Bonobo apes fence in the wild ...

[Rob Carr]

Sexual behavior in Bonobo apes is much closer to humans than chimps are to humans. Bonobos have sex face to face, sex for pleasure (although parakeets do that, too), lesbian sex, and (the thing that this thread reminded me of) male Bonobo apes hang from branches and fence penises.

The recent SciAm special issue, Becoming Human [sciam.com] has an article on the Bonobos -- "Bonobo Sex and Society" that covers it in more detail.

I'm going to regret posting this and admitting I know this, aren't I?

Re:Nice to see

[ampathee]

Maybe we need a "-1, Informative" mod :)

Well, they WANT to go faster, no?

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps the supercomputer should also be used for, uh, "member positioning"? Then SGI could also sell "go slower" drugs for those blokes who don't want it all to be over too quickly, no?

Leaked Photo!

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

GazetteNET has managed to get their hands on a leaked picture of the new recommended swimming helmet designed by the supercomputing software. Here's the photo. Looks pretty slick to me. :)

http://www.gazettenet.com/business/02242003/14.jpg [gazettenet.com]

Re:Nice to see

[jacksonj04]

R3DU.C E YOOR P3N-IS 2D/\Y!!!!!!! SW1M F4ST'ER!!!!!!!