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Financial Services Application Benchmarks
Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence
The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series delivers the performance and flexibility to help users solve bigger problems, to build business advantage or to rapidly create, simulate, analyze, and visualize the success of new ideas.
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Financial services megatasking performance
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Benchmark description
Workload: Monte Carlo* simulation based on Microsoft Excel 2007* SP1 and X_Trader* Pro v7 Demo.
Monte Carlo simulation based on Microsoft Excel 2007 is a spreadsheet that calculates the European put and call option valuation for Black-Scholes* option pricing model using Monte Carlo simulation. This simulates the calculations performed when a spreadsheet with input parameters updated and must recalculate the option valuation. This workload runs on all available logical processors.
X_Trader Pro v7 Demo includes X_Trader Pro trading software with four preconfigured X_Trader Pro workspaces, a simulated TT Gateway*, the X_Trader API, FIX Adapter*, the TT Trainer* playback application, and several recorded data sets.
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Black Scholes* performance
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Benchmark description
The Black Scholes* kernel workload is based on a financial modeling algorithm for the pricing of European style options. After its publication in 1973 by Fisher Black, Myron Scholes and Robert Merton, its impact was enormous and rapid. The benchmark consists of a kernel that implements a derivative of the Black and Scholes technique. SunGard developed the code, which uses a continuous fraction technique that is more accurate than the traditional polynomial approximation technique. The test produces number of jobs performed per hour.
New Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series based workstations
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