
FSA 2021
FSA 2021 will take place from Sun, the 25th till Thu, the 29th of July at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg.
The event is currently planned as a regular on-site event. Further details regarding possible restrictions and the registration are currently being discussed internally and among the other events. We will be able to give further details by the end of November.
Meanwhile: stay healthy, stay safe and keep on racing!
Cloud Computing Challenge
With the 2020 FS Season cancelled, not only team members and cars are sitting idle. A lot of CAD workstations, CFD clusters and other powerful computing resources are idling away as well!
So FSA & FSAS* challange you, the teams, to a cloud computing challenge!
Many FSA & FSAS Members have contributed computing power to folding@home, a cloud distributed computing project focused on medical research. The project uses the power of your computers to help find cures for many diseases, including alzheimers, cancer and also the villain of the hour – COVID-19!
So put your computing power to good use and try to beat the score of Team Formula Student All Stars –> https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/246653 – or join us 😉
Find out how at https://foldingathome.org/
* Formula Student All Stars, a mythical FS Alumni Association shrouded in mystery
FSA 2020 Cancellation
We are very sorry to announce that FSA 2020 will be cancelled, for two major reasons:
One: We don’t think it would be responsible to give any incentive to the students to continue to get together working on the cars. Also, the pandemic situation is very different for the individual competitors, giving major disadvantages to some.
Two: For us as well as teams with more elaborate travel plans it is currently impossible to foresee the situation in the coming weeks, let alone months, which would make major investments – financial and otherwise – stand on very brittle legs; a situation which we would like to avoid.
There will be a more thorough announcement by the end of the month (we still have to figure out the details and coordinate) but right now we can tell you two things:
- you can stop working and planning for FSA 2020
- we are working together with all the other European organizers to make sure the resources you put into the project so far are not lost.
PS: If you do not know what to do with all that engineering power – check out https://www.agorize.com/en/challenges/code-life-challenge and similar contests!
Your CFD Cluster is bored ? Join Folding@Home and fight disease with your computing power!