Do Banks Need to Grow their HPC Estates?
Well, the International Data Corporation certainly seem to think so. The assertion comes in a white paper, sponsored by IBM, released earlier this year.
Everything tagged: Financial Services
Overengineered Cookies
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Balancing Cost & Performance
In #HPC, as in motorsport, often it is not about all about raw performance but rather, balancing several parameters to achieve the fastest possible results.
Raspberry Risk
Ever wondered how many Raspberry Pis it takes to run your risk analytics? Sounds like the setup for a joke, right? Its not. And we have an answer!
HPC on Cloud — Cost Optimisation & Cloud Economics
A look at the economics of running a HPC system on a public cloud infrastructure. It looks at the impact of the performance differential between different types of VM, the impact of price variation and introduces the concept of a performance normalised price to allow easier comparison of VMs.
How slow!?
How much longer does it take to develop software within large companies? Lets take a look.
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.
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.