Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Supercomputer Bankers

Speeding Up Financial Analysis

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=22463&channel=computing§ion=

"Now IBM has shown that stream computing can be used to analyze market data faster than ever before. The result is a machine that helps automated trading systems determine the price of securities using financial events that have just occurred. To build the system, the computing company partnered with TD Securities, an investment-banking firm, to tweak IBM software called InfoSphere Streams for financial data. The firm ran the software on one of the latest IBM supercomputers, known as Blue Gene/P."

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