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Algorithmic Trading: Faster Execution or Smarter Strategies?
The short answer is: You need both. Since the advent of the first high-frequency trading (HFT) firm, the quest for low-latency trading has been paramount. Strategies that were profitable before HFT are...
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Six Ways to Say “Hello” in Chapel | Part 3
This article concludes the introduction to Chapel via simple “Hello world” programs that I started in parts one and two of this series. In the previous articles, we’ve looked at serial and...
View ArticleDeepening Cray’s Involvement in Collaborative R&D and Codesign
Cray recently announced the birth of our new computing research organization for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the Cray EMEA Research Lab (CERL). Our investment in Europe is not new (the...
View ArticleEuropean Researchers Model the Human Brain
You may have seen recent news items regarding the Human Brain Project (HBP), a ten-year European neuroscience research initiative. Interactive computer simulation of brain models is central to its...
View ArticleControlling the Tide of Weather and Climate Data with Tiered Storage
There’s an old cliché that everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. While Cray can’t (yet) prevent droughts or cool off hot spells, we can help make the lives of weather...
View ArticleCan We Make Petabytes Useful?
A recent article in Nature, “The Power of Petabytes”, by Michael Eisenstein, reviews how exponentially increasing life science data exceeds our present abilities to process and make sense of it. Even...
View ArticleTop 5 Blog Posts From 2015
Happy New Year! Check out some of the top blog posts from 2015: Why Do Better Forecasts Matter? Meteorologists have been striving to increase the accuracy of their work since the first weather...
View Article5 Predictions of Where Supercomputing is Heading in 2016
From new processor technologies to quantum computing, 2016 promises to be another exciting year for supercomputing. Here are five predictions as to how the industry will push ahead in 2016: The year...
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[Infographic] Risk Management & HPC
In the post-2008 credit crisis world, risk evaluation by financial institutions has steadily increased in demand and complexity. Where large banks once performed risk analysis on a monthly basis,...
View ArticleCredit Valuation Adjustment: Solve Computational Challenges and Reduce Grid TCO
Financial institutions have long used credit valuation adjustment (CVA) to monitor and manage counterparty credit risk, meet regulatory and reporting requirements, and even price and hedge CVA. In the...
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I/O Accelerator Boosts MSC Nastran Simulations
MSC Nastran is a widely used structural analysis applications, especially for large modal analysis (i.e., eigenvalue) simulations. It requires a high-capability I/O system for good throughput...
View ArticleBoosting Productivity and Reducing Costs in Petroleum E&P
For the month of April, I am fulfilling a long-time dream of living in Florence and learning the Italian language. I’ve been thinking about the vastly different world it was when my grandparents left...
View ArticleUrika-GX: A Game Changer for Big Data Analytics
There’s a lot of hype around big data in healthcare and the life sciences. But big data is here to stay. Information is what drives the entire industry. When I worked in big pharma, I learned that the...
View ArticleThreat Intelligence – Fool’s Errand or Holy Grail?
In recent years, we’ve seen a disturbing trend in computer network defense — attackers are innovating at a much faster pace than defenders can keep up with. We’ve seen malware evolve from primitive...
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Leveraging Advanced Technology for Algorithmic Trading (Trading Smarter, part 1)
Low latency and advanced analytic technologies are the primary influence in today’s capital markets. This is the first in a series of blog posts to discuss trends in algorithmic trading markets and...
View ArticleCray System Shows Huge Runtime Reductions on SeisSpace ProMAX
To all of the doodlebuggers, geologists, geophysicists, engineers and exploration IT folks out there, I have a question for you — well, maybe a few. Is your compute and exploration application...
View ArticleExpanding the Envelope for LS-DYNA Blade Off Simulations
When a fan or compressor blade fails in an airplane jet engine, it’s a potentially deadly event. Failed blades release high-energy fragments that can perforate the engine case, damage fuel tanks and...
View ArticleRemote Visualization Supports the Global Workforce: Let’s Move Pixels Rather...
Do you have larger and larger datasets, widely dispersed users, ever-shrinking IT support? If your answer to any of these is yes, have you tried remote visualization? Remote visualization moves pixels,...
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Machine Learning at Scale for Full Waveform Inversion at PGS
Seismic imaging in the ultra-deep Gulf of Mexico is incredibly challenging: The hydrocarbon-bearing sedimentary rocks are deep and buried under evaporite salt domes and geological layers that come in...
View Article‘Shaheen II’ System Enables World’s First Trillion-Cell Simulation
Saudi Aramco, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, has set a record for oil and gas reservoir simulations. The achievement was made possible by “Shaheen II,” a Cray® XC40TM system at the...
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