Financial Services

Improved performance, reliability, and scale. Microsoft Windows HPC solution and Towers Perrin's MoSes™ software deliver a transition path to the future.

Milliman's MG-ALFA (Asset Liability Financial Analysis) software and Microsoft Windows HPC deliver a solution for financial modeling capability to help insurance firms gain greater confidence in their decision-making.

Intelligent utilization of compute resources for time-sensitive and data-intensive work

Actuary Speeds Calculations by Factor of 10 with Windows-Based HPC Cluster.

Currency Exchange Service Chooses Windows High Performance Computing over Mainframe.

Financial services firm scales fast-growing hedging application on low-cost cluster using Windows HPC solution.

This white paper covers an incubation project from HPC++ Labs called the HPC++ CompFin Lab. The lab explores the hosting of data-centric, high-performance computing (HPC) and high-productivity computing solutions by providing a computational finance service for academic use.

This paper describes a comprehensive solution based on Microsoft and GigaSpaces technologies that addresses scalability and performance challenges with Excel-based applications in the securities and capital markets industry.

Grinham Managed Funds (GMF), a hedge fund manager located in Sydney, Australia, processes its high-frequency data faster, which helps it implement trading models more rapidly. As a result, GMF can both reduce administrative overhead and improve performance.

Describes the current drivers behind the need for greater data analytical power within financial markets, the business and technical challenges these drivers imply and how the Microsoft High Performance Computing (HPC) platform can move financial institutions closer to goal of real-time pricing, trading and risk management across asset classes.

Learn how you can increase the computational power and reliability of Excel 2007 spreadsheets using a Microsoft High-Performance Computing platform.

Microsoft HPC++ Lab introduces the HPC++ CompFin Lab, which integrates Microsoft Windows HPC Server, a central market data database, and Microsoft productivity products to provide universities with an online service to publish, execute, and manage computational finance models. Professors can publish models for their students, who can execute the models and analyze results from any Internet connection. Opportunity to enroll is coming soon.

Find presentations from Microsoft’s Sixth Annual Financial Services Developer Conference held on March 13, 2008. HPC presentations include:

Windows HPC Server Overview

Building SOA HPC Applications Using WCF and Windows HPC Server 2008

Excel Solutions with Microsoft's HPC Platform

Building One of the World’s Fastest Super Computers on Windows