I'd be interested to know if any of the manufacturers are using, HPC systems to aid their design process? If they can't afford the big systems I wonder if they rent via the cloud model?
Anyone know? Got an interest in this area and one of my colleagues has dealings with some funky linux HPC.
I know these guys did the big version with the Patron Highcroft LMP1 car which was awesome last year -
http://www.wirthresearch.com/