Turbocharging the Street

摘要

In the ongoing arms race on Wall Street, high-performance computing (HPC), also referred to as supercomputlng, provides a huge competitive advantage that no firm can afford to miss out on. HPC is the engine that lets firms analyze and run simulation models on complex financial instruments and portfolios, price options, detect fraud, and predict currency -shifts. It lets companies analyze risk across portfolios as well as the enterprise, and enables quantitative analysts, traders and portfolio managers to understand the relationship between risks and profitability. But the speed and processing power comes at a substantial — and continually escalating — cost.