Comment on pringles

blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And yet…. Pringles does use supercomputers

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  • prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That article is useless. Any other reference?

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, you can just google “pringles super computers” They did use a supercomputer in modeling the thing, most articles are useless.

      or here’s a CNN article about it. the blurb is just

      “Pringles potato chips are designed using [supercomputing] capabilities – to assess their aerodynamic features so that on the manufacturing line they don’t go flying off the line,” said Dave Turek, vice president of deep computing at IBM. Personally, though, you’re missing out on this gem

      Keep in mind, pringles were around since 1968, apparently. modeling and simulating dynamic airflow was probably barely in it’s infancy. (and even to day, computational fluid dynamics is some exceedingly hard math to rock)

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      • prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks for the reply! Yes sure and I did that but was a bit irked that the link you posted as a source for information regarding the supercomputing was (sorry) useless.

        Anyways thanks for caring :)

        Cheers

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