Bloodhound, a faster car than a bullet that aims to travel at 1690 kilometers per hour, has improved its development performance with the introduction of Oracle Cloud.

The Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) is expected to challenge the 1,600-km-per-hour test run at the Cornwall airport in Newquay, UK, on October 26. It is six times faster than a regular F1 car, and it can reach 15 minutes from Seoul to Busan. If the test is successful, the speed of the world`s fastest `Thrust SSC` will be increased to 1228 kilometers per hour.

Bloodhound, which began development in the UK in 2007, is a blend of high-speed fighters, F1 racing cars, and spacecraft, as more than 350 engineers from Germany, Spain, Italy and China, as well as aerospace companies and universities, It is called. However, the complexity of development and the increase in costs have caused the planned schedule to be delayed.

Bloodhound developers decided to adopt Oracle Cloud early this year to efficiently collect and analyze data from more than 500 sensors installed in vehicles. As a result, it is possible to simulate real-time data sharing and analysis in a cloud environment, so that problems such as air resistance, shock waves, and noise can be quickly diagnosed and improved.

"We`ve built 550 sensors that generate a variety of data to improve vehicle performance, and we can securely build it and share it with our technicians in a cloud environment," said Mark Chapman, Bloodhound Engineering Director. "In particular, "He said, adding that the speed of development, including the ability to modify design designs in real time," he said.

On the other hand, Bloodhound developers and Oracle plan to make the project not just a new record, but to be used in students` science and engineering education.

Delivering computer training to 3.1 million students in 110 countries, Oracle Academy has developed educational content based on data extracted from the Bloodhound project. The goal is to develop students` understanding of mathematics and physics by developing virtual bloodhounds and performing performance tests.

By Lee Gyung Tak kt87@


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