http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices RSS Feed for Financial Services en-us Tue, 06 May 2008 23:56:35 GMT 2008-05-06T23:56:35Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/IBM_Red_Hat_Deliver_Financial_Trading_Platform.html IBM and Red Hat announced a new algorithmic trading platform to help financial services firms take advantage of accelerated streaming data, real-time analytics and complex multi-path calculations in real-time trading and risk environments. Tue, 06 May 2008 23:56:35 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/IBM_Red_Hat_Deliver_Financial_Trading_Platform.html 2008-05-06T23:56:35Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/InfiniBand_Goes_Long.html Since InfiniBand came onto the scene, users have focused their efforts on using the high performance network fabric to connect compute and storage boxes within the datacenter. But a couple of enterprising companies, Network Equipment Technologies and Obsidian Research Corp., have developed InfiniBand connectivity for wide area networks. Tue, 06 May 2008 22:39:05 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/InfiniBand_Goes_Long.html 2008-05-06T22:39:05Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/Platform_Computing_Establishes_Financial_Services_Business_Unit.html Platform Computing has announced the formation of a Financial Services Business Unit and the promotion of Jim Mancuso as its general manager. Tue, 06 May 2008 17:06:50 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/Platform_Computing_Establishes_Financial_Services_Business_Unit.html 2008-05-06T17:06:50Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/The_Real_Deal.html Despite many irrational human behaviors, economists have the task of making reliable predictions about the economy, which involves trying to find underlying logic in the processes by which people make decisions in consumer spending, housing, employment, savings, healthcare and many other economic-related realms of activity. With innovative algorithms and TeraGrid resources at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, economist John Rust is solving the most realistically specified versions yet attempted of the life-cycle model, a central paradigm of economics modeling. Mon, 05 May 2008 20:08:54 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/The_Real_Deal.html 2008-05-05T20:08:54Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/Digipede_Enables_Stochastic_Modeling_Software_on_Grid.html Digipede Technologies announced today that Barrie & Hibbert has integrated its Economic Scenario Generator with the Digipede Network for greatly increased scalability and performance. Mon, 05 May 2008 19:03:33 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/Digipede_Enables_Stochastic_Modeling_Software_on_Grid.html 2008-05-05T19:03:33Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/HPC_in_the_Land_of_247.html More businesses than ever are employing high performance computing capabilities to fulfill their mission-critical needs. Here we take a look at three companies -- NASDAQ, Wal-Mart and FedEx -- that are using HPC assets to run their businesses. Mon, 05 May 2008 18:13:50 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/HPC_in_the_Land_of_247.html 2008-05-05T18:13:50Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/IBRIX_Storage_Performance_Validated_in_Lab_Testing.html Testing commissioned by IBRIX and conducted independently by ESG concluded that IBRIX Fusion is well suited for managing data in large-scale grid, cluster, and enterprise computing environments. Mon, 05 May 2008 19:03:19 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/IBRIX_Storage_Performance_Validated_in_Lab_Testing.html 2008-05-05T19:03:19Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/17910859.html SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 1 -- Woven Systems Inc., the leading innovator of Ethernet Fabric switching solutions for datacenters and high-performance computing clusters, today announced that its TRX... Mon, 05 May 2008 19:02:28 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/17910859.html 2008-05-05T19:02:28Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/XtremeData_Altera_Demo_In-Socket_FPGA_Accelerator_at_IDF.html At the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, XtremeData, Altera, and Intel Corporation are demonstrating acceleration of a full double-precision floating point simulation of a Monte Carlo financial simulation analysis. Tue, 06 May 2008 01:20:59 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/XtremeData_Altera_Demo_In-Socket_FPGA_Accelerator_at_IDF.html 2008-05-06T01:20:59Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/17910839.html NEW YORK, April 2 -- Today, IBM announced a partnership with TD Bank Financial Group to explore the use of IBM's breakthrough "Stream Computing" software system which will... Mon, 05 May 2008 19:02:26 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/financialservices/17910839.html 2008-05-05T19:02:26Z