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How slow!?

How much longer does it take to develop software within large companies? Lets take a look.
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HPC on Cloud for Financial Risk — A Comparative Analysis
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HPC on Cloud for Financial Risk — A Comparative Analysis

This article presents the results of running the COREx benchmark on over 650 different VM types across the three major cloud providers. It attempts to contextualize these results and help HPC practitioners interpret them to optimise their systems, as well as discuss the methodology employed.
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Hyperthreading in HPC: On or Off?
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Hyperthreading in HPC: On or Off?

This article discusses the use of simultaneous multi-threading (hyper-threading) in HPC, with a particular emphasis on financial risk systems and the COREx benchmark. It looks into the SMT status of cloud virtual machines, the ability to enable or disable and the cost implications of doing so.
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COREx - A Financial Risk HPC Benchmark
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COREx - A Financial Risk HPC Benchmark

Evaluating hardware performance such that it correlates well to your own use case is always difficult.Financial risk system specific benchmarks can be even more of a challenge due the proprietary and often secret nature of the code involved. This article looks at developing such a benchmark.
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HPC Glossary
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HPC Glossary

A glossary of (HPC) terms as used in our recent articles to ensure clarity and a shared understanding. These are largely well understood; however, there can sometimes be a little confusion, especially around the common usage of the words core and CPU.
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High Performance Computing on the Cloud
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High Performance Computing on the Cloud

Running HPC clusters is much easier on the cloud where there’s unlimited capacity and no scheduling problems right? That’s certainly what all the cloud vendors always tell me, but how true is it?
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Adventures in High Performance Computing
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Adventures in High Performance Computing

A lighthearted but often serious look at the challenges involved in running High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads both on premises and on the Cloud with a slant towards financial services use cases.
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The Evolution and Industrialisation of Software Development
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The Evolution and Industrialisation of Software Development

An examination of the evolution of software development in the context of the evolution of previous technological advances.
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