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May 26, 2012

Microsoft Aims Newest HPC Offering at Wall Street

When profits drop, businesses look to boost productivity and performance -- and nowhere is that demand more urgent right now than on Wall Street. Yesterday, about 60 blocks north of the scene of the recent financial meltdown, Microsoft announced it has released its latest product to provide that boost: Windows HPC Server 2008.

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Feature Articles from hpws08

Hardware Accelerators Are One Way to Help Wall Street, Companies Say

(09/24/2008) - Can hardware acceleration save Wall Street? Well, not as quickly as a multibillion-dollar bailout might, but there was plenty of discussion at this week's HPC on Wall Street conference about the advantages specialized hardware can bring to market analysts and traders. Sellers of these products were all over the place, their booths were busy, and several sessions on the subject were standing-room only.
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Banks and Outsourcing: Just Say 'Latency'

(09/24/2008) - A common critique of external cloud computing services is that big-time IT users, like major corporations and financial institutions, are nowhere near getting on board. That might be true for the new breed of "cloud" services, but for the financial services sector, at least, outsourcing is far from a dirty word.
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Accelerating Financial Computations on Multicore and Manycore Processors

(09/22/2008) - Multicore processors promise improved computational efficiency, but achieving high efficiency execution on these processors is non-trivial. Moreover, in the financial industry, time is literally money, so high-productivity software development is just as important as efficient execution.
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GPUs Finding A New Role on Wall Street

(09/22/2008) - Despite the carnage from this year's financial crisis, the arms race in algorithmic trading is likely to continue. Behind that competition are a variety of high performance computing technologies, such as commodity clusters, FPGA accelerators and Blue Gene supercomputers. One of the new kids on Wall Street is GPU computing, a technology that is making inroads across nearly every type of HPC application.
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Special Commentary from hpws08

Michael Feldman
Intel: CPUs Will Prevail Over Accelerators in HPC
While hardware accelerators continue to show impressive performance results for supercomputing workloads, Intel is sticking to its CPU guns to deliver HPC to the broader market. Read more...

Michael Feldman
The Quantitative Models Tanked Too
The confluence of the U.S. financial meltdown and this week's High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York might be one of those coincidences that's trying to tell us something. Read more...

Michael Feldman
Bad News on Wall Street Doesn't Diminish the Need for Speed
Considering the ongoing crisis in the financial markets, you might expect the mood at a gathering of people who make their living in the financial services industry to be kind of glum. Or at least very, very anxious. Read more...

Diane Lieberman
Beep, Beep, Ka-Ching
On the eve of the annual High Performance on Wall Street conference, it's ironic that the words "high performance" and "Wall Street" can be perceived as an oxymoron this week. Is it possible, though, that the very financial crisis we're in may bode well for increased investment in HPC? Read more...

Off the Wire from hpws08

TS-Associates, Voltaire, Accolade Team on Performance Monitoring Solution - (09/22/2008)
Microsoft Announces Newest HPC Platform - (09/22/2008)
Cluster Resources, IBM to Provide Moab Solution on iDataPlex - (09/22/2008)
Celoxica, Intel Collaborate on PCI Express - (09/22/2008)
Cluster Resources, Microsoft Demo Moab Hybrid Cluster Solution - (09/22/2008)
SoftModule Joins Tervela Advantage Partner Program - (09/22/2008)
RapidMind Launches Financial Extensions - (09/22/2008)
ClearSpeed Accelerates Credit Risk Analysis - (09/22/2008)
Sun, GigaSpaces Announce Benchmark Performance Results - (09/22/2008)
SIMtone Announces ASPEED for Windows HPCS 1.6 - (09/22/2008)
ISC's Star-P Supports Windows HPC Server 2008 - (09/22/2008)
NYSE Trading Solution Delivers US Equities in a Box - (09/22/2008)
Aleri Releases Benchmarking Results - (09/22/2008)
Intel, Rogue Wave to Demo Performance Tests Results - (09/19/2008)

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Soundbites

Podcast: HP Downsizes; Fujitsu Gears Up for Growth
HP announces plans to shed 8 percent of its workforce, while Fujitsu looks to expand its HPC presence in Europe and elsewhere.
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Podcast: NVIDIA's Kepler Debuts in HPC; Intel Adds to Chip Count
NVIDIA pushes Kepler into HPC and beyond. And Intel adds three new families of Xeon chips.
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James Reinders
James Reinders is a senior engineer for Intel and has helped develop supercomputers, microprocessors and software tools for 25 years. James focuses on parallel programming models and is the author of a number of books on the topic. More > >

Gary Johnson
Gary M. Johnson is the founder of Computational Science Solutions, LLC, and a specialist in HPC management as well as the development of national science and technology policy. He is also involved in the creation of education and research programs in computational engineering and science. More > >

Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones has over 15 years of experience in HPC, in supercomputer center management and as a research user in industry. He now leads the HPC Services & Consulting at Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). More > >

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Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe has developed compilers for over 30 years in both academia and industry, and is now a senior compiler engineer at The Portland Group, Inc. More > >