IBM today announced a partnership with TD Bank Financial Group to explore the use of IBM’s stream computing software system running on an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. Together the team will utilize a fundamentally new software architecture in order to examine thousands of real-time information sources to support financial services companies. The goal being to capitalize on on up-to-the-minute changing market conditions. (via TD Bank Partners with IBM on Stream Computing | insideHPC.com)
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