hardware accelerators

Research conducted by Lepus in mid 2008 discovered that the financial services industry was looking with great interest into the use of hardware accelerators, in a bid to handle the increased demand for computer power coming from the business. However, the economic downturn, combined with the maturity of the technology meant that it was not something that was expected to see great investment in the short-term future.

Handling the Demand for Increased Compute Power

There has been a surge of interest over the past year in finding ways to decrease the power, cooling and space requirements of the data centre. Hardware accelerators are billed as one of the technologies that may be able to assist this. Typically hardware accelerators are far more power efficient than CPUs and due to the fact that they exploit multiple levels of parallelism, they offer vastly increased processing power.