Quite a lot if we're talking about the opening of the McLaren Technology Centre this past year, which I have also been privileged to visit. The Queen's presence at the opening honored one of the fabled "marques" in the history of racing, currently fielding the top-performing West McLaren Mercedes team.

McLaren has won more Grand Prix races than any other Constructor since it entered the sport in 1966, thanks to its focused commitment on cutting edge technology. No surprise then, that McLaren should choose Sun as its technology partner.

Sun has partnered with McLaren in a variety of ways, both at the design stage and for real-time monitoring and optimization.

On the design side, Sun's Technical Compute Farm (TCF) technology has been key to McLaren's demand for increased computing power in the critical areas of design, simulations, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).