I attended a good set of presentations from one of our implementation partners, D-Fine, yesterday on high performance computing (HPC). They had one of their hedge fund clients present talking about some work they had done in valuing derivatives on a cluster, however the most interesting part of the event was talking about Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) being used within HPC grids and clusters.…
I read an interesting article a few weeks ago on the SQL Server Magazine web-site where the issue of Solid State Drives (SSD) and their potential to impact the future need to tune databases was being discussed.
The article raised the question that as SSD becomes more mainstream, and its capacity increases significantly, then could it eventually eliminate the need for database designers/administrators to have to optimise table structures to deliver acceptable levels of performance?…
John Gapper article again from the FT – this time announcing the death of the independent investment bank (click here). Thought it was worth noting this one as a benchmark for where people’s thoughts are now……
Great closing line above from John Gapper in his article "Take this weekend off Hank" in today’s FT, talking about how Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, should keep well alone from assisting Lehman Brothers, or set a precedent that may ultimately result in the US losing its triple A status. …
…it must be summer (maybe not in the UK according to the weather?), seems like I missed this but Tibco has just finalised its purchase of Insightful, the makers of the S-Plus statistical package. A release from Insightful explaining the deal can be found by clicking here.…
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