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Initial price-performance comparisons of ten different EC2 instance types.
Fastest kdb+ system in 7 of the 17 response-time benchmarks
Cloud-based solution sets 5 of 17 response-time records.
Highest energy efficiency and baseline benchmark speed to date.
SQL-based eXtremeDB sets 9 of 17 response-time records with first STAC Benchmarks on an IBM Power system.
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Fall 2014 STAC Summits
Dynamic STAC Summits took place in London (Oct 30), Chicago (Nov 4), and New York (Nov 13).
Topics included new approaches to realtime analytics, technology learnings from other latency-sensitive industries, new approaches to compute-intensive workloads, tips for developing and deploying parallel applications, advances in low-latency networking, and new approaches to financial time series data and data for regulatory reporting.
Recent Blogs
Some people learn their word-of-the-day from calendars and web sites; I am lucky enough to interact with financial services technologists who bring their own colorful language. As an example, the response I got from one when I asked about SQL-on-Hadoop: chimera.
Our recent research on “big data” use cases uncovered many large financial services firms using Hadoop and other technologies to build “multi-tenant” analytics platforms—that is, shared environments meant to support multiple independent applications. In some cases, these platforms are being built in advance of demand, trying to preempt individual businesses from deploying
It's true. STAC has officially joined the 90's. ... Why start blogging now, you ask?
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Computational Finance
Accelerating analytics, parallelizing code, getting more calculations per watt...
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New hardware and software, debates over parallel file systems, and much more
