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David Rogers

I attended Intel's FasterRisk in London on June 21 at the invitation of SAS's technology partner Hewlett Packard (HP). The event was hosted by Nigel Woodward, a former GEIS colleague, now Global Director Financial Services ESS at Intel. Nigel reminded...

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Where: Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA), 66 Portland Place, London W1 In 2009 following the events of 2008 we talked about risk being topical. Politics and market evolution is a gradual process, but it can be seen that now in mid 2010 –...

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March 30th 2010 saw the 18 th London fasterCITY and over 120 attendees to hear about Intel’s 2 latest CPU releases – born as Westmere and Nehalem EX and christened as Xeon 5600 and 7500 Series! Shannon Poulin of Intel HQ gave an overview of Intel’s...

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fasterCITYlive

Following the presentations at FasterCITYlive this evening, the agenda was broadened considerably with a panel discussion featuring Greg Cubbon from BT, Misha Kipnis from ITRS, Nigel Matthews from Thompson Reuters, and Ian Wilkinson from Microsoft....

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fasterCITYlive

The latency gains from switching to the Intel Xeon processors 5600 and 7500 series are significant. That is, they reduce latency from low microseconds to tens of nanoseconds. This was the key message delivered by Nomura Bank’s Ken Robson at tonight’s...

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