Banks and the payment industry have realized long ago that knowledge is not enough to confirm money transactions through the web. Even apparently strong techniques such as tokens and smartcards have been facing the challenge to deal with Malware and Hacker attacks. Then, to avoid blind signing, institutions have been appealing to external devices, which are likely to fail due to network flaws or challenging user experience.

Moore’s Law no longer gives us steadily increasing clock speeds, but instead gives us more cores and wider SIMD units. Applications need to make effective use of these in order to continue extracting performance improvements from current and future processor generations.

Improving the performance software applications is a constant challenge for software developers in the financial services industry. This webinar provides an overview of how to accelerate these computations, especially Monte Carlo and Black-Scholes, using a combination of the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor and the Intel® Parallel Studio XE suite of software development tools. Areas explored include performance analysis, threading, vectorization, math library usage and compiler optimization.

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Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) Start Here Guide (Intel AMT 9.0) [PDF 804KB]

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Getting Started

       2.1 What is Intel® Active Management Technology?

       2.2 What is new with the Intel® AMT Release 9.0