Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing 253
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."
Re:Swimsuit Editions? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:It would be traditional. (Score:5, Insightful)
There really aren't that many sports that look good nude. Maybe I just don't like "jiggle" as much as everyone else, but really, much better to strip the swimsuit off afterwards.
The only sport that looks good nude is sex. If you don't think sex is a sport, you must've missed college.
Re:Swimsuit Editions? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:It would be traditional. (Score:3, Insightful)
The new 'Go-For-The-Nuts-As-A-Last-Resort' Clinch [go-knights.net]
The 'I-Swear-Its-Not-Gay' Clinch [sandcats.org]
Olympics should be about the athletes (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Disgusting. (Score:2, Insightful)
The big story here.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Olympics should be about the athletes (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Gee, if you have until 2008... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Olympics should be about the athletes (Score:3, Insightful)
Being a former competative swimmer, I would revolt at the idea of everyone wearing the same suits, caps, goggles... Being into weightlifting now, I can see how belts, gloves, straps, to chalk or not etc. is a personal choice. We should let the atheletes make those choices to maximize their performance.
Re:Disgusting. (Score:5, Insightful)
Unlike what TV and movies have told you, you cannot just type in "How do we end poverty?" into a super computer and just wait for it to respond.
"In a world where the US is still being niggardly over paying slavery reparations, how can anyone find it acceptable to flagrantly waste resources in this way?"
Some company had the money to spend and they spent it. 'Super-computers' aren't some rare Earth resource that can only be used by the elite. (In other words, we're not talking about Univac.) They're built when they're needed by the entities that have the money to pay for them. This is actually a Good Thing TM. Computers get better, prices come down, 'super' computing resources are used for a broader range of applications.
On another note, I vote we end the "couldn't we spend our time curing cancer?" rationale that tends to earn karma around here. No, we cannot use an aeronautics engineer from Boeing to cure cancer. Open Source programmers cannot write drinkable water for third world countries. Ending consumerism in the United States won't feed the world. This planet thrives on diversity. Embrace it.
Re:Nice to see (Score:2, Insightful)
Athletes do a great deal of weird things to aid in performance improvement...tucking in things here and there isn't really that odd, nor should it be shocking. It either makes one faster or not. That would be the point of training and technical preparations.
>Posting anonymously to avoid people realizing that my main account is associated with an actual *shudder* athlete.
I was a world level track and cross country competitor and have never thought of hiding that while working in IT. My athleticism (and yours) shouldn't be any sort of detraction. In fact it proves that you can accomplish something between IT studies/work and the rest of one's life.
It may just show what you can without all the gaming habits
I know (and of) a great many endurance sport athletes who are both academically and professionally accomplished in their work.
JB
Re:It would be traditional. (Score:3, Insightful)