“We deal with really high-resolution data and upwards of 400 data channels per car. Many of our channels are being logged at one millisecond intervals, so we’re creating very large volumes of information. Our Lenovo laptops with AMD CPUs deal with all this data flawlessly in real time during the race. We also put together performance reports that are generated as soon as the checkered flag drops.”
At-a-Glance
- Customer: IMSA
- Industry: Automotive
- Product Family: Servers,Edge Devices,Laptops
- Region: North America
- Processor: AMD
- Topic: Big Data and Analytics,IT Transformation ,Industry-specific Solutions,High Performance Computing,Edge
IMSA delivers next-level motor racing experiences with Lenovo and AMD
IMSA combines live video feeds with timing, scoring, and telemetry data from vehicles in real time, enabling faster insights into racetrack performance—all running on Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkEdge servers, powered by AMD EPYC™ processors, housed in a trackside mobile data center.
Customer Problem
IMSA has high-res cameras in key locations on racetracks while sensors stream data on vehicle and driver performance in real time. Ingesting, processing, and analyzing all this data is a huge challenge.
Lenovo Solution
Underpinning IMSA’s mission-critical solutions is an infrastructure based on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 V3 and Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 edge servers in a mobile data center, with Lenovo laptops at the frontend for race control.
Business Impact
The Lenovo and AMD solution brings together telematic and video data into one package. By combining live video feeds with vehicle data in real time, IMSA gets better insights into racetrack performance, faster.
“Just running the new system side by side with what we used to do at one event, we saw it was already superior.”
Mark Raffauf, Senior Director of Competition, IMSA
Results
- · Supports up to 72 video feeds
- · Enables race control to see dozens of camera angles at once
- · Delivers engaging race data feeds for fans
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