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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sep 24, 2009 | Wall Street & Technology | Financial firm turns to GPU computing to run pricing models.
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Aug 26, 2009 | FINalternatives | A profile of commercial drivers for HPC in hedge fund operations.
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Aug 03, 2009 | Ars Technica | Wall Street pushes ahead with plans to accelerate computer trading.
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Jul 28, 2009 | Ars Technica | This isn't your father's the stock market.
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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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Jul 13, 2009 | Salon.com | Who benefits when the computer takes over the stock market?
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Mar 16, 2010 | Solace Systems today announced that TS-Associates has added support for Solace's Unified Messaging Platform.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Mar 17 | The Register | But what about the tier ones? Read more...
Mar 17 | Cadalyst Magazine | A new generation of workstations is changing the nature of technical computing. Read more...
Mar 17 | Linux Magazine | Latest iteration of Sun Grid Engine able to tap into Cloud. Read more...
Mar 16 | Bio-IT World | Biotech firm builds genetic models from patient data. Read more...
Mar 15 | The Register | EMC's grand vision for unified global storage. Read more...
Jan 12 | | In-depth look at vSMP Foundation server virtualization technology, technical implementation, use cases and capabilities. The technical whitepaper provides an architectural overview and details on the three vSMP Foundation products: vSMP Foundation for SMP, vSMP Foundation for Cluster and vSMP Foundation for Cloud.
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Learn about scalable fault-tolerant architectures and examples of energy efficient and scalable supercomputing clusters using dual QDR InfiniBand to combine capacity computing with network failover capabilities with the help of programming languages such as MPI and a robust Linux cluster management package.
LIVE@SCO9: The IBM team discusses new innovations in hardware, software and services that help clients better understand their workloads and get insight from their R&D efforts. Technology demonstrations include the soon-to-be-released Power7 HPC processor, the DCS990 system with 2.4 petabytes of storage, the xCAT management tool, secure HPC cloud computing and more. Winners of two HPCwire Readers' and Editors’ Choice Awards! Take the IBM virtual tour at SC09 or more information go online to: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/sc09.html