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Increasing Performance for High-end Risk Computation
Monday, September 14th, 2009Kx Systems: Multi-Core Leadership
Thursday, September 10th, 2009How do you best handle exponentially growing volumes of financial market data while meeting the need for real-time database analysis of millions of streaming and historical records? Kx Systems addressed this need for their kdb+tick ultra high-speed database, used by trading groups worldwide, with scalable Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series-based servers. (more…)
Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Monday, April 27th, 2009Wall Street Systems, who help financial institutions and other enterprises improve their workflows and increase control of corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading, and global back office operations, found their clients wanted the ability to replace their SPARC* and specialized UNIX* boxes with off-the-shelf Intel systems. By offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux* versions of its best-selling financial applications, Wall Street Systems could create new revenue streams and sharpen its ability to compete aggressively against other financial software firms in its increasingly cost-conscious market niche. They also found they could cut costs itself by streamlining international operations. Read the case study. (more…)
Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), a non-profit organization founded in 2007 by a group of leading technology companies and the World Wildlife Fund, has a mission to reduce global CO2 emissions from computing by 54 million tons per year by 2010. This short video features Lorie Wigle, president of CSCI and General Manager of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office. In the video, she explains how CSCI seeks to promote computing energy efficiency thereby reducing computing CO2 emissions. CSCI uniquely brings together both computer manufacturers and computer users to encourage a market transformation around computer energy efficiency and power management. (more…)
Intel CMO Sean Maloney and Intel’s Newest Processor
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Information Week’s Alex Wolfe interviews Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President Sean Maloney. Maloney talks about the new Intel® Xeon® processor (sporting 741 million transistors) and compares it to one of Intel’s first server processors, the Intel® Pentium® Pro processor (with only six million processors), and offers some advice to IT managers who may be gun-shy about upgrading their servers in the current economic environment. (more…)
Faster Chip Design with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Monday, March 30th, 2009For Intel’s chip design process, increased design complexity and business requirements lead to exponential compute capacity growth and increased cost. To help us understand how the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series could address these challenges, we recently ran a broad range of industry-leading end-to-end electronic design automation (EDA) applications with more than 50 Intel silicon design workloads. We concluded that can replace up to 11 single-core processor-based servers with one quad-core processor-based server for some EDA applications, lower operational costs, and accelerate design cycles to achieve faster time to market. Get the rest of the details. (more…)
GigaSpaces: A Scalable, Cost-Effective Stack for Highly Concurrent Financial Services Applications
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Intel, Sun and GigaSpaces have partnered to offer an optimized hardware and middleware stack, targeted at the unique needs of banks, capital market firms, insurance companies and other financial institutions. The platform was tested with highly concurrent risk management, real-time analytics and online applications, typical with financial services companies. This case study describes how this very scalable solution provides both low latency and high throughput in both HPC and online application environments. (more…)
NYSE Technologies: Optimizing Middleware to Increase Throughput and Reduce Latency and TCO
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009NYSE Technologies is working with Intel to prove that improving efficiency by processing vast amounts of market data in a matter of microseconds is compatible with reducing the total cost of ownership. This case study looks at how these competing objectives are achievable by optimizing NYSE Technologies’ ultra low-latency middleware, Data Fabric*, on a single server using Intel’s four-socket, quad-core architecture. (more…)
Quicker, Smarter, Stronger
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008In the Best Execution Guide to Latency 2009, Nigel Woodward, Global Director Financial Services for Intel, explains that the fundamentals of market trading remain even though financial market restructuring is underway. (more…)
New STAC* Report Available: Reuters RMDS on Intel ® Xeon® 5400 Processor
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) has performed a study comparing the power consumption of a server using Intel® Xeon® 5400 “Harpertown” processors to the same server using previous generation “Clovertown” processors, running a market data load of two million updates per second across a stacked Reuters RMDS configuration that utilized as many of the eight cores in this system as possible.
The Harpertown processor decreased the server’s overall power consumption by 16 per cent (333 watts versus 395 watts) and increased the server’s market data efficiency (updates per second per watt) by 19 per cent (6010 ups/W versus 5060 ups/W).