This survey was conducted to examine the Current usage and Future trends in how HPC is being used within financial services organisations.

Many topics were covered including current state environment; current state usage including usage/ support/cost models; challenges; and future state. Hardware, programming languages and cloud were also looked at.

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1. Current state environment
2. Areas using HPC
3. Business processes HPC is used for
4. Monte Carlo Simulation vs Closed Form
5. Optimise models and reduce calculation time
6. Full versus selective revaluation
7. Operating systems grid management
8. Operating systems being used to run HPC
9. Languages being used to build grid applications
10. Big data analytics and Non SQL
11. Investment in Non SQL technologies
12. Data lake strategy
13. Big data visualisation tools
14. Mixed use of HPC capacity
15. Tools being used for AI/ML
16. Current state usage/support/cost model
17. HPC capacity – shared or ring fenced?
18. HPC number of cores
19. Dedicated or shared support for HPC
20. Number of FTE’s supporting HPC
21. HPC cost model
22. Current state challenges
23. Challenges that banks are experiencing with HPC growth
24. Increase in HPC capacity
25. What is causing the increase in HPC capacity

24. HPC strategy affected by different regulations and approaches in different countries
25. Regulatory and compliance issues
26. Other HPC challenges
27. Future State
28. HPC road map
29. Compute grid platforms strategy
30. Innovation in HPC
31. Increasing performance whilst reducing footprint
32. Usage of container technology
33. Type of hardware used
34. GPU programming languages
35. Options being used or considered for HPC and the specific technologies and vendors being used
36. Cloud agnostic or specific
37. Cloud vendors
38. Cloud paradigm
39. Cloud disconnected layer or connected directly to data centres
40. Monitoring CI/CD
41. Readiness of organisation for consuming cloud/hybrid cloud
42. Organisational challenge of off-premise data
43. Cyber security and Cloud
44. External help needed