2017 HPC on Wall Street Conference Welcome by Russell Flagg |
Lacee McGee, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Keynote Session Speaker, "Convergence of HPC and BD and it Implication for FSI" |
Lacee McGee, Sr Product Manager, FSI Vertical, Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
Rapt Audience at Keynote Session #1 |
Note-taking and FSI Focus at 1st Session |
Laptops and iPads note-taking were standard in this Capital Market attendee audience |
Capital Markets attendees came from major headquarter offices in New York and other Major Cities |
Cell phone photos of presentation slides were standard with this techie audience |
Attendees ot the conference included senior officers of major corporations |
Justin Hodgson, Senior Acct Mgr, Financial Services, NVIDIA, was a featured speaker on the Opening Keynote Session #1 |
NVIDIA's informative session covered CPU versus GPU |
The NVIDIA's keynote session also featured Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Kinetica on the program |
Karthik Lalithraj, Principal Solution Architect, Kinetica was on the Opening Keynote Session #1 covering Identifying Terroristic Threat in Real Time |
Kinetica employs High Performance Computing for their super-speed, real-time computing of terrorism threats |
Ciara / Hypertec Group |
BIOS IT / San Francisco and London |
Micron / Innovative Memory Solutions |
Pure Storage / Cisco |
Exhibitor and Capital Markets Attendees Interaction |
Pure Storage / Cisco |
Rima Alameddine of NVIDIA, one of the featured speakers, greets a colleague at the show. |
BIOS IT Global IT Solutions discuss Capital Markets technology |
Lenovo Technology discussions at their exhibit |
Keynote Session #2 featured speakers from Hewlett Packard and Intel |
Featured speakers included Chuck Newman, HP; Charles Milo and Russ Fromkin, Intel |
An outstanding panel for Keynote #2 -- Chuck Newman, Charles Milo, Russ Fromkin covering HPC and accelerated technology for Ultra High Speed Trading |
Russ Fromkin is Intel's Americas HPC and HPDA Sales Director |
Charles Milo is Intel's Enterprise Technical Specialist |
The Capital Markets were well represented at the conference, Credit Suisse as an example |
An attentive audience at the Hewlett Packard and Intel session |
Conference attendees represented major Wall Street firms, banks, international investment organizations |
Apstra was showing their new Network Operating System (AOS) |
Terasic FPGA Platforms were featured at their busy exhibit |
Save-The-Date for 2018 - April 16, 2018 for the next HPC for Wall Street |
Terasics exciting display of FPGA systems |
Pure Storage demonstrations brought Wall Street IT people to their booth |
Mellanox display of ultra high speed server / storage interconnect solutions |
Dell EMC was active with their best-in-class HPC technology: applications, data, infrastructure and security |
Dolphin Interconnect Solutions connects FPGA, GPUs and servers using PCI Express |
Pico featured market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions |
Ciara / Hypertec Group was active in their exhibit |
Micron was a Gold Sponsor and had an outstanding session #6 with Brad Spiers, Senior Technology Adivsor as a featured speaker |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel were Gold Sponsor at our 14th Annual |
Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise featured accelerated HPC solutions |
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise / Intel exhibit was very active during exclusive show viewing times |
Show interaction provided face to face discussions and new contacts established for vendor and potential customers |
Old friends had the opportunity to network at this efficient one-day event |
Lenovo and Intel were well represented at the exhibits and conference |
Speakers and exhibitors had time to meet and discuss HPC technology issues for Wall Street and Capital Markets |
Dell EMC featured machine-learning and AI in their presentations and conference sessions |
Pure Storage discussed data storage solutions with Wall Street IT attendees |
CDW had an active location and provided CDW solutions for their new-found friends |
Apstra featured Vendor-Agnostic Data Center Network Automation |
Harvey Stein of Bloomberg moderated panel Session #3 with Moiz Kohari (State Street), Jeff Birnbaum (60East Technologies), Sean Hafeez (Apstra) |
Session #3 was an outstanding program "Outsourcing HPC Infrastructure in the HFT Ecosystem" |
Session #3 panelists represented major financial firms of State Street, Bloomberg, 60East, Apstra |
Moiz Kohari, State Street, was formerly with the London Stock Exchange |
Jeffrey Birnbaum, 60East Technologies, was formerly with Merrill Lynch / Bank of America |
Sean Hafeez, Apstra, Director |
Aspera and IBM Company was a featured speaker on session #7 -- Jason Warman, Director of Engineering Financial Services, was a panelist |
Lenovo had David Weber, Wall Street CTO, as a featured speaker on session 7. |
Ciara / Hypertec Group had an active exhibit showing their new 1 Uorion HF.310-G4 High Frequency Server |
Dolphin had an active exhibit showing the PCIe Network delivering low latency, simplified approach to sharing and moving PCIe devices between systems |
Super Micro was represented in the BIOS IT exhibit |
A delicious luncheon was an opportunity to share experiences and meet new Wall Street colleagues |
The terrace Ballroom is one of the classic New York venues of our traditional luncheon program |
Dessert was served in the exhibits to encourage more network opportunities |
Dessert trays were passed throughout the exhibit hall immediately after lunch |
Coffee service, soft drinks, cookies, and brownies were all party of the amenities |
"Have another" the waiters suggested |
Mellanox sponsored Session 5, "High Performance Storage -- Where is it Headed" with Asaf Wachtel of Mellanox the moderator |
Asaf Wachtel is VP, Business Development, Mellanox Technologies |
Narendra Narang is Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat |
Robert Winter is Director Advanced Solution Architecture, Micron Technology |
Piyush Chaudhary is Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM |
Rob Davis was a distinguished panelist on Session 5 |
Where is HPC Storage Headed -- Panel 6 was extraordinarily received by our Wall Street IT attendees |
Network opportunities were at every corner of the HPC event |
Mellanox's exhibit was well-received |
Lenovo and Intel's exhibit featured servers and storage systems |
Micron was a Gold Sponsor and Brad Spiers spoke on session 6, "Accelerate Unchanged Spark Code with FPGAs and SSDs." |
Brad Spiers, Senior Technical Advisor, Micron Technology, Inc. |
Micron's Presentation covered Machine Learning Infrastructure Progression in Time |
Dave Weber, Lenovo, and Wall Street attendees |
Micron's booth was busy during the show breaks |
BIOS IT with "V Scaler" |
Brad Spiers, Micron, speaks to a group of colleagues after his presentation at Session 6 |
Andy Bach, Senior Technology Advisor, Pico Trading, was a featured speaker on Session 7 |
Andy Bach covered Technology Network Trend Processing Speed |
Matt Cushman also spoke on Session 6 -- Matt is CEO of Engineers Gate Market Technologies |
Engineers Gate, founded in 2014, a multi-manager trading platform |
Ed Turkel, Dell EMC, moderated the last panel of the day and focused on HPC in today's FinTech world |
Ed Turkey is HPC Strategist, Dell EMC, and his presentation illustrated the depth of HPC in the financial market |
Rima Alameddine of NVIDIA is their VP Eastern Region and discussed "AI Will Revolutionize Every Industry" |
Rima Alameddine was a persuasive and well-received speaker |
Jason Warman is a Director of Engineering Financial Services, Aspera, an IBM company |
"Business Challenges" slide by Aspera |
Dave Weber, Wall Street CTO, Lenovo |
Lenovo's slide "The Modern IT Infrastructure Challenge," presented by Dave Weber |
A well-deserved coffee break to end the day's events |
