Characteristics of financial services HPC workloads in the cloud
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This article explores high performance computing (HPC) workloads in the financial services industry, focusing on cloud migration strategies and platform selection.
- Financial services use HPC for complex calculations like risk analysis, pricing models, and trading simulations
- Cloud adoption follows five stages: on-premises, hybrid burst, lift and shift, AWS optimized, and AWS native
- Key workload characteristics include task duration, parallelization, resource intensity, and software requirements
- Migration options range from maintaining existing schedulers to building cloud-native solutions
- Recommended platforms depend on workload duration:
- AWS Batch for tasks over 5 minutes
- AWS Lambda for tasks under 15 minutes
- HTC-Grid for tasks from seconds to minutes
The article emphasizes that cloud migration is an evolving journey with multiple optimization stages.
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