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Backtesting price-performance of Spark/AWS with and without data acceleration
2.4x the previous best throughput of a system using 5 nodes
Performance and efficiency comparison of different Xeon Scalable SKUs
First STAC-A2 results on cloud-based Sklyake instances
Beat each preceding STAC-M3 submission in over 50% of the baseline benchmarks in 1:1 comparisons
First STAC benchmarks of a container/orchestration framework
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Spring 2018 STAC Summits
The Spring 2018 STAC Summits are now open for registration:
STAC Summits bring together industry leaders from top financial and technology firms to discuss ways to meet important engineering challenges in finance using innovative technologies. Challenges like alpha generation, risk management, trade execution, time-sync compliance, and other business imperatives involving fast data, big data, and big compute.
Recent Blogs
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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Quant finance (big data/big compute)
Making both compute- and data-intensive analytics faster and more cost effective
Artificial Intelligence
Using neural and non-neural techniques to automate prediction and correlation
