Sequoia also represents continued American leadership in high performance computing, key to the technology innovation that drives high-quality jobs and economic prosperity.

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Wall Street firms seeking peak performance have turned away from all-purpose servers to specialized technology solutions developed for a particular task, said participants at 2011 High Performance Computing Linux Financial Markets in New York.

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He suggested that traders could combine Watson technology with social media analytics and sentiment analytics within a trading strategy using high performance computing.

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The enhanced 32-bit execution capability will benefit existing 32-bit cloud server applications, while 64-bit execution extends the applicability of ARM technology-based solutions to enable new opportunities in networking, server and high-performance computing.

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"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.

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