Industry Solutions: Financial Services


Computing with Star-P is applicable in multiple areas of research and production in economics and finance industries. Solutions based on Star-P relevant to the economics and finance industry problems include:

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Application Areas

  • Portfolio optimization
  • Valuing financial derivatives
  • Credit fraud detection



  • Hedge trading strategies
  • Risk analysis

Case Studies

Case Study Financial Modeling > 6.5x Speed-Up on 8-P Server

Videos & Demo

Demonstration Video Star-P Product
Overview >

  • Familiar desktop environment
  • Fine- and course-grained parallelism
  • Leveraging existing codes through Star-P Connect
  • Code optimization through performance profiler

News & Articles

"Credit Modeling with Supercomputing"
From HPC Wire, Sept. 14, 2007 >

"New Star-P for Financial Services brings supercomputing to Wall Street"
From Automated Trader Magazine, Sept. 10, 2007 >

"Better Credit Modeling with Supercomputing"
From Wall Street Technology Blog, Sept. 6, 2007 >

"Star Power: Dan Tudball talks to Interactive Supercomputing, the developers of Star-P - a high performance computing solution for the desktop-bound"
Wilmott magazine, March '07 >


"With Star-P, not only can we create accurate, realistic models and compute the answers we need quickly, we can continually experiment with new financial algorithms and models with real-time interactivity."

Peter Cotton
CEO of Julius Finance