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A Cost-Effective Path to Speed, Efficiency and Productivity |
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High-Performance Computing – or as it is increasingly called, High-Productivity Computing – continues to drive innovation and profits for a wide range of industries. Today, technological evolution is driving HPC in new directions with non-traditional “Edge HPC” applications. Wall Street firms are increasingly seeking to improve productivity with both traditional and Edge HPC.
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Intel Increases HPC Performance Without the Resource Strain |
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 The challenges facing Wall Street are causing a dramatic increase in the need for processing power but companies are already near their limit in terms of energy consumption and space, not to mention funding. They need higher performance but within the same power envelope. To find out what Intel has in store for the HPC market, WFS interviewed Richard Dracott, General Manager of Intel’s High Performance Computing Group.
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Keeping Up with the Ever Increasing Demands of Data Processing |
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 StreamBase Systems (www.streambase.com), a leader in the fast-growing complex event processing (CEP) market, has pioneered a remarkable new approach to processing and analyzing real-time streaming data. Founded by data management experts who have been driving industry innovation for decades and backed by top-tier investor firms, StreamBase has developed a new class of stream processing software. Global organizations are witnessing its high performance coupled with its intuitive graphical development environment that eliminates the need for costly, inflexible custom-coding.
We recently spoke with Barry Morris, Chairman and CEO of StreamBase Systems, Inc. about high-performance CEP and the trends that are driving its adoption in financial markets.
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Bring on the Juice! High-Performance Computing Feeds Wall Street’s Insatiable Appetite for Computational Power |
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  Enough is never enough. At least not for Wall Street. That applies
to almost any element of the business – profits, market share,
customers – you name it. There is also an insatiable appetite for
computational power and that’s where high-performance computing (HPC)
comes in. Financial Insights’ parent company, IDC, uses the term
high-performance computing to encompass the entire market for servers
used by scientists, engineers, analysts and others to run
computationally intensive modeling and simulation applications.
Technical computers range from small servers costing less than $5,000
to large-capability machines valued at tens or hundreds of millions of
dollars each. Wall Street IT licks its chops when it sees the chance to
significantly increase complexity and reduce latency, and HPC is
fertile ground for such innovation.
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Microsoft is Enabling Secure, Affordable HPC Solutions across the Enterprise |
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 According to Neil Cowit, New York-based HPC solution specialist for
Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
provides a secure, cost-effective solution for the compute-intensive
requirements of financial services.
In a recent interview with Wall Street & Technology, Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer said, “The way in which performance gains are achieved on
computer chips has changed, creating a new challenge for HPC software.
For years, Intel just kept doubling, doubling, doubling clock speeds.
Now they don’t double clock speeds anymore – they give us twice as many
cores or processors. Figuring out how to take any application and
parallelize it so it can run across multiple cores will be a key, not
just in high-performance computing and not just in financial scenarios
but in all applications figuring out how to exploit the increase in
power that physics is giving us.”
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IBM Combines HPC Cluster Technology with Microsoft WCCS 2003 and Excel Server 2007 to Deliver ‘Game Changer’ Solutions |
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 IBM (www.ibm.com) recently announced a new focus on the
Departmental/Workgroup clusters market. For engineers, scientists and
IT professionals who use high-performance computing (HPC) applications,
IBM provides departmental and workgroup clusters. Available for Windows
Computer Cluster Server 2003, these clusters capitalize on IBM’s
extensive engineering, testing and deep-clustering experience,
utilizing IBM System x™ rack-optimized or IBM BladeCenter® servers for
extraordinary performance and reliability.
According to Stuart Alexander, IBM’s clusters worldwide marketing
manager, departmental and workgroup clusters, which are smaller, more
manageable and allow for more affordable HPC clustering solutions,
bring more compute power closer to users for greater productivity.
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Dell Delivers Entry-Level to Complete, End-to-End HPC Cluster Solutions Leveraging WCCS and Excel 2007 |
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 Kevin Noreen is senior manager at Dell (www.dell.com) for their Open
Systems Product Marketing that focuses on HPC. Acknowledged as a
visionary by his peers, he has been instrumental at Dell in identifying
emerging markets and trends, providing strategic direction, developing
leading partnerships as well as defining Dell’s future solution
products and delivery strategies. We asked him how he would respond to
the question that modeling and trading platforms have not always been
viewed as part of the traditional enterprise applications.
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Aleri Places High Priorities on Delivering Event-Processing Technology for High-Performance Computing |
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 With offices in the US and the UK, Aleri (www.aleri.com) specializes
in high performance event-processing technology that is being used to
power mission-critical applications within a number of the world’s
leading financial institutions. According to Don DeLoach, CEO at Aleri,
their Streaming Platform is “the leading enterprise class
event-processing technology” in terms of performance and versatility.
Designed from the ground up for high throughput with minimal latency,
it provides an industrial-strength engine that can address a wide
variety of event-processing needs in financial services.
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Keeping Up with the Ever Increasing Demands of Data Processing |
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 StreamBase Systems (www.streambase.com), a leader in the fast-growing
complex event processing (CEP) market, has pioneered a remarkable new
approach to processing and analyzing real-time streaming data. Founded
by data management experts who have been driving industry innovation
for decades and backed by top-tier investor firms, StreamBase has
developed a new class of stream processing software. Global
organizations are witnessing its high performance coupled with its
intuitive graphical development environment that eliminates the need
for costly, inflexible custom-coding.
We recently spoke with Barry Morris, Chairman and CEO of StreamBase
Systems, Inc. about high-performance CEP and the trends that are
driving its adoption in financial markets.
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ASPEED Turbocharges Financial Services Applications Using Intel’s Energy-Efficient Quad-Core Xeon CPUs |
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 ASPEED Software (www.aspeed.com), a Microsoft partner, enables firms
to rapidly upgrade their applications to fully exploit multi-core and
grid, significantly shortening response time. By adapting Windows- and
Linux-based single-thread desktop and server applications, explains
ASPEED’s CEO Kurt Ziegler, customers can take full advantage of
Intel-based multi-core platforms without major application surgery or
retooling. We recently caught up with Kurt just as he finished meeting
with Richard Dracott, general manager, high-performance computing group
at Intel (www.intel.com).
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Tyan’s PSC Series + Microsoft’s WCCS 2003 = High-Performance Personal Supercomputing |
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 According to Dr. T. Symon Chang, a former Intel and IBM executive
who founded Tyan Computer Corporation (www.tyanpsc.com), “yesterday’s
top 500 supercomputer can now be sitting right at the side of your
desk.” Recently, Tyan announced the availability of their TyanPSC T-600
series Personal Supercomputer featuring new Xeon quad-core server
processors from Intel. A fully integrated five-node cluster, the PSC
delivers computation capability while only requiring power from a
standard 15-amp wall outlet.
WFS: What is a PSC?...
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Microsoft’s Leadership in Distributed Enterprise Computing Builds Case for HPC |
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 Financial firms can now deploy clusters of servers running Windows Server 2003 to benefit from supercomputing power at a fraction of the cost. Kyril Faenov, Microsoft’s HPC product unit director explains how.
Some of the toughest computing challenges in the world are tackled and often solved by using high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Companies can now cost efficiently deploy clusters of servers running Windows Server 2003 to benefit from supercomputing power.
To learn how, we talked to Kyril Faenov, director of the high-performance computing product unit in the Windows Server group, who leads the HPC product strategy and implementation at Microsoft.
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Evolving from the Edge to Mainstream |
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 High-performance computing deals with very high volume and throughput-information processing. Financial IT consultant Ray Ferrara at Fiducité examines HPC from a Windows-based perspective.
Once the domain of expensive, esoteric research projects, high-performance computing (HPC) today is becoming mainstream, paralleling industries like automobiles where techniques proven for the race track find their way to the family car, just as high-speed interconnects, look-ahead instruction caching, parallel compilers and debuggers and other artifacts of HPC are finding their way into financial industry computers.
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High-Performance Computing Meets Microsoft Excel |
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 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 has vastly expanded capabilities – over
one million rows by 16,384 columns – and its capacity to boost
individual productivity and calculation performance have already
received much acclaim. For large financial firms, there is an even
greater potential. Excel 2007 has evolved from a standalone desktop
application to one that can participate in a client/server world,
available to users within an enterprise as well as users outside the
enterprise in a scale-out scenario. What’s more, with the new
multi-threaded recalculation engine, which accelerates calculations and
takes advantage of parallel threads across multi-processor machines,
the power of high-performance computing is now accessible.
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Cornell Gives Wall Street a New Curriculum: High-Performance Computing |
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Moving beyond the hype, Roger Lang, director, marketing and
development at NYC’s Cornell Theory Center, shows how Web services will
underpin explosive growth of high-performance computing in financial
applications.
An increasingly complex and competitive global
trading environment, shortened product development cycles, enormous
pressure on costs – these are some of the conditions defining what we
may as well call reality financial services.
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