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Special Report

High-Performance Computing

As high-performance computing becomes more cost-efficient, it has become a fixture at firms who need to handle massive amounts of market data and increasingly complex instruments. Almost two-thirds of servers in the financial services industry are being used for HPC, according to TowerGroup estimates, and its widespread adoption has placed the emphasis on getting applications up and running quickly, and producing rapid results. On Wall Street, “the quicker you get an answer the quicker you make a trade and make money,” says IBM’s Kevin Pleiter. “The time to calculation is the big differentiator.” Also in this report: Firms are learning to write for multicore processors; and cloud computing’s security risks.

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HPC: Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Use

As high-performance computing becomes more cost-efficient, it has become a fixture at firms who need to handle massive amounts of market data and increasingly complex instruments.

Multicore Ups the Ante, Now Developers Must Catch Up

Thanks to relatively inexpensive multicore processors, firms are applying high-performance computing to areas such as pre-trade risk analysis. Now their programmers need to get up to speed.

Security Risks Hiding in the Clouds

One of the chief attractions of cloud computing is that firms don’t have to worry about where or how their processing work gets done, but that is also its biggest risk.