Wall Street
comes to CERN
CERN will host an event on computing for finance on
Wednesday, 21 November, 17:00-19:00, in the Main Auditorium.
The event, co-organized by the EGEE project and
CERN openlab,
brings together four distinguished speakers from the banking
industry and IT companies serving financial institutions.
The finance sector is one of the driving forces for the
use of distributed or Grid computing for business purposes.
The speakers will provide insight into how different types
of Grid computing – from local clusters to global networks -
are being applied in the financial sector. In particular,
the event will encourage discussion on how new developments
in Grid computing emerging from the world of science can
benefit financial institutions.
The speakers will be Michael Yoo, Managing Director and
Head of the Technical Council at UBS, Fred Gedling, Chief
Technology Officer at DataSynapse, Adam Vile, Head of Grid,
HPC and Technical Computing at Excelian Ltd., and Daniel
Egloff, Head of the Financial Engineering Computing Unit,
Zürich Cantonal Bank. As well as reviewing the state of the
art of high-performance computing in the financial sector,
the speakers will describe the use of software and
techniques from physics, such as Monte Carlo simulations, in
the financial world.
The talks will be followed by a Q&A session and a
networking cocktail for the audience and speakers. The event
is organized in collaboration with the regional business
network rezonance.ch. Participation is free and open to all.
Registration via
www.rezonance.ch is essential.
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