On 20 June, Intel co-hosted a breakfast seminar with TABB Group, JP Morgan Securities and Microsoft about the trading platform of the future. The event explored how financial services institutions can leverage the latest high-performance computing and multi-core technology to reduce data latency and increase efficiency across the trade lifecycle.

Chaired by Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of TABB Group, executive panellists were:

• Carl Carrie, Executive Director, JP Morgan Securities
• Jason Waxman, General Manager High Density Computing, Intel
• Stevan Vidich, Industry Architect Financial Services Group, Microsoft

To hear the discussion from the event in full, click below ›

Programme breakdown:

• 01:01 - Larry Tabb’s intro
• 02:18 - Carl Carrie talks about JP Morgan’s algorithmic trading processing
• 05:01 - Jason Waxman talks about infrastructure challenges
• 07:38 - Stevan Vidich talks about virtualized infrastructures
• 08:51 - Larry Tabb asks about scaleability & grids versus big boxes
• 09:24 - Carl Carrie talks about the differing models of clusters, grid computing and complex/streaming event processing
• 14:02 - Carl Carrie talks about the importance of low latency
• 15:03 - Jason Waxman talks about technology innovations around low latency
• 19:22 - Stevan Vidich talks about operating system issues around multicore & low latency
• 21:23 - Larry Tabb asks Carl Carrie about some of the inter-departmental, business/political issues around grid computing
• 25:17 - Conversation turns to the topic of management of memory when dealing with high data volumes
• 29:31 - Stevan Vidich talks about the importance of eliminating cross-network traffic and cross-process communication
• 31:50 - Stevan Vidich talks about VMWare, Virtual Server and Windows HyperVisor
• 33:33 - Jason Waxman talks about Intel’s advanced support for virtualization, particularly around I/O
• 34:58 - Q&A on the topic of power/agility on the desktop versus server-side processing
• 42:26 - Q&A on the “low-latency arms race”, processing speed and data volume
• 44:40 - Q&A on spend versus economic benefit/competitive advantage
• 46:52 - Q&A on standards & desktop cycle scavenging
• 48:37 - Q&A on outsourcing computations to a third party
• 50:50 - Wrapup

The Intel proceedings were recorded by Voices in Business ›

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