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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
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First STAC-M3 results on Microsoft Azure
New form of memory shows numerous large speedups over 3D NAND SSD
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Fall 2019 STAC Summits
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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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