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Voltaire Launches InfiniBand-Ethernet Bridge

Jan 26, 2010 | Voltaire has announced the Grid Director 4036E, a new QDR InfiniBand switch that includes a built-in Ethernet gateway. As such, it acts as a network bridge that hooks together QDR InfiniBand and 10 GigE infrastructure, all implemented inside a 1U box.
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Hard Times May Boost Linux in Financial Services

Apr 06, 2009 | On Monday, at the High Performance Linux on Wall Street conference in New York, Inna Kuznetsova, director of IBM's Linux Strategy, led a panel that discussed how Linux can be used to reduce costs and improve performance in these economically challenging times. We recently got the opportunity to ask Kuznetsova about the increasing profile of Linux for IBM customers and how the technology is enabling them to realize cost savings.
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Platform Computing Bullish on Financial Services Business

Mar 16, 2009 | When Platform Computing formed its financial services business unit in May 2008, it probably didn't know that within six months the financial industry would begin to implode, bringing much of the global economy down with it. Now that some of the biggest investment banks are just scrambling for survival, will Platform's new focus on Wall Street pay off?
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Hardware Accelerators Are One Way to Help Wall Street, Companies Say

Sep 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'

Sep 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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Microsoft Aims Newest HPC Offering at Wall Street

Sep 23, 2008 | 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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Bloomberg Uses GPUs to Speed Up Bond Pricing

Sep 24, 2009 | Wall Street & Technology | Financial firm turns to GPU computing to run pricing models.
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Hedge Funds And High-Performance Computing

Aug 26, 2009 | FINalternatives | A profile of commercial drivers for HPC in hedge fund operations.
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Computer-Trading Worries Grow as NYSE Builds New Datacenter

Aug 03, 2009 | Ars Technica | Wall Street pushes ahead with plans to accelerate computer trading.
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The Matrix, But with Money: The World of High-Speed Trading

Jul 28, 2009 | Ars Technica | This isn't your father's the stock market.
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BofA’s Birnbaum Urges Wall Street to "Think Parallel"

Jul 23, 2009 | Wall Street & Technology | Bank of America's Jeffrey Birnbaum has been teaching high school kids parallel programming and thinks Wall Street should be thinking parallel too.
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The Battlebots of Wall Street

Jul 13, 2009 | Salon.com | Who benefits when the computer takes over the stock market?
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TS-Associates, Solace Systems Enable Real-Time Measurement of Latency in Solace Platform

Mar 16, 2010 | Solace Systems today announced that TS-Associates has added support for Solace's Unified Messaging Platform.
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Cloud to Tackle Trillion-Euro Money Laundering Problem

Mar 05, 2010 | Money laundering is estimated at €1 trillion worldwide -- a huge problem. Now European researchers are using cloud computing services to boost anti-money laundering efforts by tracking suspicious transactions.
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New Business Analytics Software from IBM Helps CFOs Drive Smarter Business Decisions

Feb 09, 2010 | IBM today announced major enhancements to its performance management software designed to help CFOs and finance managers accelerate the adoption of business analytics and drive smarter decisions for better business outcomes.
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ISE, Hanweck Associates Announce Partnership

Feb 03, 2010 | The International Securities Exchange (ISE) and Hanweck Associates announced today that ISE has made a strategic investment in Hanweck Associates.
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Voltaire Switch Includes Integrated Ethernet Gateway for Low-Latency Bridging

Jan 26, 2010 | Voltaire Ltd. today announced the industry's first 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch with a built-in low latency Ethernet gateway for seamlessly bridging traffic to and from Ethernet-based networks.
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Platform Computing Integrates Symphony with Calypso's Galapagos Product

Jan 19, 2010 | Platform Computing announces that Calypso Technology has licensed Platform Symphony to boost the performance of its Galapagos financial optimization software.
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Moscow State University Supercomputer Has Petaflop Aspirations

The Moscow State University supercomputer, Lomonosov, has been selected for a high-performance makeover, with the goal of tripling its processing power to achieve petaflop-level performance in 2010. T-Platforms, who developed and manufactured the supercomputer, is the odds-on favorite to lead the project.
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Intel Ups Performance Ante with Westmere Server Chips

Right on schedule, Intel has launched its Xeon 5600 processors, codenamed "Westmere EP." The 5600 represents the 32nm sequel to the Xeon 5500 (Nehalem EP) for dual-socket servers. Intel is touting better performance and energy efficiency, along with new security features, as the big selling points of the new Xeons.
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The Week in Review

The ACM Turing Award goes to the creator of the modern personal computer; and Voltaire announces a mid-range InfiniBand switch and new technology that accelerates distributed applications. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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AMD: OEMs primed for Opteron 6100s

Mar 17 | The Register | But what about the tier ones? Read more...

Arrival of the Desktop Supercomputer

Mar 17 | Cadalyst Magazine | A new generation of workstations is changing the nature of technical computing. Read more...

Scheduling HPC In The Cloud

Mar 17 | Linux Magazine | Latest iteration of Sun Grid Engine able to tap into Cloud. Read more...

Tailoring Medicine with Supercomputers

Mar 16 | Bio-IT World | Biotech firm builds genetic models from patient data. Read more...

Gelsinger Stuns Analysts and Colleagues with Storage Pool Plan

Mar 15 | The Register | EMC's grand vision for unified global storage. Read more...

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