JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer

An anonymous reader writes "JP Morgan is expanding its use of dataflow supercomputers to speed up more of its fixed income trading operations. Earlier this year, the bank revealed how it reduced the time it took to run an end-of-day risk calculation from eight hours down to just 238 seconds. The new dataflow supercomputer, where the computer chips are tailored to perform specific, bespoke tasks (as explained in this Wall Street Journal article) — will be equivalent to more than 12,000 conventional x86 cores, providing 128 Teraflops of performance."

Comments

238 seconds is about 4 minutes

[DRAGONWEEZEL]

for all you people who don't really think in seconds when seconds is > 60.

Re:All this..

[fsckmnky]

Let's hope the federal government regulators are paying attention this time.

It would suck for them to be confused by the cool new computer and unable to seperate systemic or institutional risk from faster calculating devices.

Re:Kudos to the JPMC engineers!

[zill]

Remember: the big investment banks are dealing with numbers that cause spreadsheets to overflow.

Wow! They're using more than 65536 rows? Impressive!