Ducati Corse continues to innovate because of Lenovo’s excessive performing, AI-optimized know-how.
One other MotoGP season is about to begin, and the Ducati Lenovo Crew is on the brink of face the competitors. At Ducati Corse’s “Champions on the monitor” occasion in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, Lenovo outlined the know-how lineup that can assist the staff battle for the 2024 title.
“We’re thrilled to kick off a brand new MotoGP Championship with Ducati Corse, constructing upon a profitable 2023 season that showcased developments in each know-how and on-track efficiency, culminating with Francesco Bagnaia securing the MotoGP Riders’ World Championship for the second consecutive yr. Undoubtedly, the battle will likely be arduous, and we’re excited to proceed working with the staff, utilizing our modern know-how and providers to boost the bar of excessive efficiency. The objective will not be solely to combat for the title but additionally to make technical developments developed for the monitor, accessible for all, for instance inside Ducati’s portfolio of avenue bikes,” commented Luca Rossi, President of Lenovo’s Clever Units Group.
As Ducati Corse’s Expertise Associate since 2018, Lenovo gives the staff with cutting-edge know-how to remodel knowledge into actionable insights, run advanced simulations and make strategic choices in seconds.
Within the technology-driven realm of MotoGP, the power to grasp knowledge and use it for strategic decision-making is extra essential than ever. Throughout each race weekend, Ducati Corse collects a complete of 100GB of knowledge from the eight Ducati Desmosedici GP bikes racing on monitor, every of which is provided with about 50 sensors. With the objective to additional enhance on-track knowledge evaluation, the 2024 season will see the introduction of the Lenovo ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) within the Ducati Lenovo Crew storage. Lenovo’s highly effective and versatile platform will assist the Crew to swiftly analyze huge portions of knowledge, whereas additionally fostering mobility and reliability, even in harsh environments, because of the Lenovo ThinkSystem SE350 edge servers.
This AI-optimized infrastructure will energy Ducati’s deep studying and machine studying instruments, used to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and security of Ducati’s racing bikes, in addition to to investigate the information collected from the bike sensors and tracks, evaluating them with riders’ sensations.
Information will not be solely analyzed on monitor: Ducati Corse additionally leverages the Ducati Lenovo Distant Storage, which permits the engineers primarily based in Borgo Panigale (Bologna) to obtain knowledge in actual time from the storage, execute advanced evaluation and collaborate seamlessly with the staff on the bottom to optimize the bikes’ settings earlier than they get again on monitor. To additional improve productiveness and distant collaboration, the Ducati Lenovo Distant Storage room within the Ducati headquarters has been totally renovated with a variety of Lenovo {hardware}, together with screens, workstations, and equipment.
The groups primarily based at Ducati’s HQ are additionally in command of aerodynamics and fluid dynamics simulations, that are powered by Lenovo’s Excessive Efficiency Computing (HPC) know-how, primarily based on Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530, SR630 and SR650 servers. Lenovo’s HPC infrastructure will proceed to play a pivotal position in innovating racing bikes and enhancing on-track efficiency, because of its built-in AI acceleration for edge workloads and optimization for sooner knowledge analytics. Furthermore, with the intention to face the continually evolving wants of a fast-paced sport, Ducati Corse has signed a Cloud Answer Supplier (CSP) settlement with Lenovo, which makes extra energy and providers out there on demand through a public cloud service to rapidly modify to unpredictable peak occasions, whereas streamlining operation protecting Lenovo as the only real level of contact.
In such a mission essential surroundings, a variety of Lenovo workstations, PCs, tablets, and screens empower the folks at each stage of the group, from the HQ to the monitor, enhancing operations, collaboration, and knowledge evaluation. Lenovo ThinkPad P1 cellular workstations observe the Crew’s digital engineers as much as the beginning grid, only a few minutes earlier than the race, when the bikes’ setup is finalized.
However Lenovo’s know-how will quickly additionally cruise on the monitor: from the 2024 season, the Ducati Lenovo Crew will introduce an modern resolution to execute on-track land surveys, powered by the Lenovo ThinkStation P360 Extremely workstation. Ducati Corse engineers have developed an autonomous-driving robotic that includes a large set of inertial and optical sensors, which is able to journey alongside the monitor initially of the GP weekend, permitting the Crew to get a digital copy of the circuit as near actuality as attainable. Lenovo’s high-performing, compact workstation will allow Ducati Corse to gather and analyze a complete of 200GB of knowledge per circuit – permitting Ducati Corse to obtain as much as 2.6M knowledge factors each second (255 MB/s) from LiDAR (Mild Detection And Ranging) sensors solely.
“There may be nice pleasure for the kickoff of the 2024 MotoGP season. We’re keen to check ourselves once more after an distinctive yr. By our aspect as soon as once more is Lenovo, a key participant that, along with being the Title Associate of the official staff, is an important know-how accomplice with whom we now have made important progress, reaching necessary outcomes on monitor. Ducati and Lenovo share related philosophies that drive us to all the time intention larger and continually set new and bold targets. For years, we now have been working collectively to win on and off the monitor, and we’ll proceed to take action with the identical dedication, thanks additionally to the brand new alternatives supplied by AR and VR applied sciences. Every little thing is able to rev up the engines on March 10 in Qatar and cheer collectively once more with all of the Ducatisti #ForzaDucati!”, commented Claudio Domenicali, CEO of Ducati Motor Holding.
Innovation is a steady journey, and the 2 organizations are continually exploring, testing, and implementing new concepts and applied sciences with the overarching intention to win each on and off the monitor. For the longer term, Ducati Corse is contemplating the alternatives supplied by AR and VR applied sciences, in addition to Lenovo’s providers to assist obtain its sustainability targets and get the pliability wanted to face the challenges of the ever-changing world of motorsports.
