JPMorgan Rolls Out FPGA Supercomputer 194
An anonymous reader writes "As heterogeneous computing starts to take off, JP Morgan have revealed they are using an FPGA based supercomputer to process risk on their credit portfolio. 'Prior to the implementation, JP Morgan would take eight hours to do a complete risk run, and an hour to run a present value, on its entire book. If anything went wrong with the analysis, there was no time to re-run it. It has now reduced that to about 238 seconds, with an FPGA time of 12 seconds.' Also mentioned is a Stanford talk given in May."
Re:Engineers solve problems (Score:2, Interesting)
Who cares if it's for bankers. That is a damn nifty gadget to work on building.
Replace "bankers" with "the Third Reich" and you would no doubt find some IBM engineers in the 1930s thinking exactly the same thing about the computers they were building.
Just because the technology is cool doesn't mean you're absolved of any moral or ethical dilemmas that may arise from working on it.