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Here's a list of applications that are being run by the Financial Services industry using Symphony.

• Fixed-income derivatives and analytics.
• Monte Carlo, Black-Scholes-type applications.

Published in: Dealing with Technology

• Credit risk calculations

Published in: Grid Today


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The High Performance Computing (HPC) area is undergoing quite a bit of changes that may impact how HPC applications are developed, and operated over the next few years. We here in the research group at Platform Computing are tracking a number of technology trends and trying to get a handle on how they will impact the HPC Community. To kick things off here is an initial list of possible areas:

1. Cloud Computing. The advent of services like Amazon EC2 has provided opportunities to ...

Today, we'll have a quick look at OpenMP. OpenMP is a set of programming APIs, and compiler pragmas that support multi-platform, shared memory multiprocessing programming in C/C++ and Fortran. The interesting thing about OpenMP, is that it is a very nice simple way to split loops (for, do) into tasks for multi-threading. Our program has a number of "for" loops in it, so that is the obvious avenue to explore for our particular program.

Anyone can get a quick overview of OpenMP ...