Large Scale Computing

 

Lab49 builds high performance low-latency architectures and applications that solve our clients’ real-time pricing, trading and risk management computational needs. Our Large Scale Computing practice blends our financial domain expertise with our experience with a range of leading edge grid computing, high-speed messaging and distributed cache technologies.

Starting from concrete, customer-centric use cases, Lab49 provides experienced guidance to challenging business cases: from supporting massive amounts of price ticks and messages a second to real-time cross-asset risk management to enterprise-wide data access to computationally intensive pricing and risk management such as Monte Carlo simulations, Lab49 provides both strategic advisory services and hands-on application design, development and optimal performance analysis.

Additionally, Large Scale Computing can help clients address their internal compliance and regulatory requirements. By providing continuous availability in the marketplace and high performance pricing, execution and risk management, Lab49 can help businesses turn operational risk issues into competitive business advantage.

Performance   Applications
  • High throughput, low latency applications
  • Massive rate of messages & transactions
  • Highly resilient infrastructures
  
  • Portfolio risk management
  • Exotic Derivatives pricing
  • Response-time critical trading applications
  • Cross-asset risk management
  • Enterprise-wide data fabrics
  • Structured Products Scenario Analysis
Compliance   Operations
  • External regulatory performance compliance
  • Regulatory IT controls
  • Internal continuous Audit functions
  
  • Global Business continuity
  • Hardware and OS independent deployment of applications
  • Legacy application resource consolidation

Delivery Process

Lab49's Large Scale Computing service offering blends together a spectrum of hands-on experience, disciplines, patterns, techniques and technologies to address our clients' high performance business needs. Furthermore, our deep understanding of financial services domain and rich and diverse cross-section of technical resources ensure that we tailor and optimize the client solution to precise specifications.

Strategic Architecture

Lab49 works with the business, architecture and application groups to design and implement application architectures across the enterprise. As a suite of corporate resources, assets and facilities, LSC infrastructures require long term objectives and roadmaps to be defined as well as specific short term plans to ensure genuine business value is extracted through application-specific implementations. Sometimes this includes re-usable components.

Application Design and Implementation

Using iterative development practices that include short delivery cycles, Lab49 builds advanced applications that confirm to architecturally sound best practices in large scale computing. Additionally, advanced software engineering design patterns are used to ensure flexibility and scalability of the solution. Often, Lab49 helps its clients in realizing the benefits of LSC through the re-engineering of applications for parallelization and scaling.

Optimization and Performance Analysis

Lab49 provides advice and hands-on resolution and optimization of application performance related issues. Through the use of sophisticated monitoring and tuning techniques and considered application re-engineering. Lab49 helps clients solve their latency, resiliency, capacity and flexibility issues.