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2.67x the space efficiency and 1.25x the energy efficiency of a system using the single-chip Cascade Lake
NFS-based solution beats previously tested Lustre-based solution in most benchmarks
Solution sets 8 records in scale tests
6,250 times as many simulations on a basket of 50 instruments in 1 hour as the previous record
Cascade Lake solution computed Greeks 23-84% faster than Skylake solution
First STAC-M3 results on Microsoft Azure
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What will happen if all the major banks burst out to a handful of public clouds at the same time to meet the enormous computing requirements of new regulations? Your kids may not be pleased....
The STAC-TS Working Group has poured a lot of effort into developing standards and software for demonstrating timestamp accuracy to the satisfaction of European regulators concerned with RTS 25 of MiFID 2. Much of that effort has concerned software-application timestamps. App timestamping is central to many firm's plans but is one of the most misunderstood issues with RTS 25.
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