High Performance Computing Benchmark 2012

Excelian's HPC maturity model measures how efficient, up-to-date and well managed HPC environments are in investment banks HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING BENCHMARK CRITERIA 64 62 average Enterprise readiness average Resource utilisation Middleware maturity TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN BANKING IN 2012 Operating model 2011 2012 SLA/Cost model Industry has made little progress in a year The results show three main challenges that impede greater maturity Sharing compute Consolidation of engineering support teams between Rollout of a usage-based cost model resources across the bussiness lines bank 64% of the banks have No bank has achieved this, but only 29% Achieved by achieved 100% 20% of the accross Compute sharing banks Grids, GPGPUS & Data Caches The market has seen a slight shift in Grid Middleware usage GPGPU adoption is on the rise 25% using this technology -One bank in 2011 adopted GPGPU -25% of the banks in 2012 are 2011 2012 18% as a adopting GPGPU as part of a hybrid CPU/GPGPU stack 2012 strategic 2011 solution 2012 2011 2012 mmmmmmMMM 2011 24% 29% 10% 17% 0% 10% 59% 51% The adoption of Cloud in 2012 has slowed with only 20% of the banks use workstations IBM In house Microsoft TIBCO 2 banks, in an advançed stage of adoption. Platform НРС GrkIServer Synphony Server scavenging Databases and Data Grids are the preferred data management solutions for grid The current focus when investing in IT is around Risk which is driven by strong regulatory ORACLE remains the number 1 vendor of data grid product on the market 50% 56% 50% pressures In-memory datagrid of banks state that Credit Counterparty Risk/ Credit Value Adjustment drives technology choices Database C++ is now commonly used alongside other programming languages for analytics C++ only Operating systems for Grid environments 40% Windows only Linux is more frequenly used, even 87% Linux & Windows if Windows is still the prefcrred solution. 18% C++and IBM Java,C# or Python excelian Technology empowered. Insight shared. Sponsored by: 82%