The heads-down financial wizardry that quants perform – constructing and running pricing models, volatility models, market simulations and such – as well as the reams of data traders look at and the analysis portfolio managers perform, all call for supercomputing-like desktop machines. The round of high-performance solid state drives that Intel announced today looks like a good fit for such Wall Street power users.
Hard Drives That Can Keep Up With Quants
September 10, 2008