Trading. Since the systems will be housed in a cage at either the CBOE or at Equinix, density is important (price is $ per 1U of space). nitro
SQL Server 2008 has a new datetime structure that can easily handle financial data. Thanks wkoop for pointing this out to me: http://blogs.msdn.com/manisblog/arc...enhancements-in-date-and-time-data-types.aspx nitro
Looks like AMD has beaten nVidia to double precision: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34761/118/ http://ati.amd.com/products/streamprocessor/specs.html Hmmm, may have to reconsider getting an nVidia and get an AMD instead. I will probably see what the GPU experts say. The card is expensive at $2K. nitro
It was a long wait, but I updated the quad opteron machine to 4 885 dual core opterons. As you may recall, the machine originally had 844s bought from eBay. The 844s were 1.8Ghz, had 800 Mhz fsb, single core, and a 1Mb cache. The 885s are 2.6 Ghz, have dual cores, have 1000Mhz fsb, and 2 Mb cache. So they are considerably more powerful. The machine now has eight cores. Also bought them from eBay at a fraction of retail prices. Gawd I love eBay. nitro
If you are in the market for a blade system, wait two weeks to a month. There is an exciting new product worth looking at. I can't tell you what or from whom because I am under non-disclosure. nitro
In the past, I have worked as a programmer on and off. In 2006 I traded a discretionary futures account with size, and blew out my account. I was forced to go back into programming for a year. I am now back auto trading a quantitative system. I am a partner in a two person prop firm. nitro
Here it is!!! Looks very promising: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/...ics/en/m1000e_blades_landing?c=us&l=en&s=corp nitro
AMD delivers the Firestream GPU: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543_544~121775,00.html Too bad is so damned expensive. Will probably end up getting it anyway. nitro