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2010 High Performance Linux Financial Markets Show & Conference, April 19, 2010

2010 Preliminary Conference Program


2010 High Performance Computing Linux Financial Markets
April 19, Monday, Roosevelt Hotel, New York

Madison Ave at East 45th Street, next to Grand Central Station

Conference Program

7:30-8:30 am Registration and Coffee Service in the Exhibits

8 am-4 pm Exhibits Open with Exclusive Show Viewing Times



8:30-10 am Session 1
Keynote: Need for Speed, Low Latency, Cost Savings on Wall Street
Wall Street has discovered the need for speed, low latency and cost savings. Firms are making money with transaction times in milliseconds. Firms are betting on low latency. All are looking to save money on initial investments and operating costs over the life of the system. Hear these experts discuss the critical issues including Virtualization that will impact on their firm’s business.

Stanley Young, CEO of NYSE Technologies and co-CIO of NYSE Euronext
Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, BLADE Network Technologies
Antonio Hallak, Head of Global Arbitrage Trading IT, Credit Suisse
Mats Andersson, CTO, NASDAQ
Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman, Arista Networks
Moderator: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Editor-in-Chief, Securities Industry News

10-11 am Coffee Service in the Exhibits
Exclusive Show Viewing Time.

11-11:50 am Concurrent Sessions (select one of two)



11-11:50 am Session 2
Ultra Low Latency When it Counts – Ensuring a Real-World Performance.
Ultra low latency is an investment on real world outcome. Low latency provides high transactional volume applications while saving budgets, power and space. Find out more in this hard hitting session.

Moderator: Paul Jameson, Global Senior Director, Financial Services, Cisco Systems
Ed Bugnion, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Cisco Systems
Tom Hansen, Principal Analyst, STAC
Dave Malik, Director, Solution Architecture, Cisco Systems
Raymond Russell, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Corvil
Bob Van Valzah, Director, Product Marketing, 29West (now a part of Informatica)

Cisco sponsored session with Wall Street IT speakers.



11-11:50 am Session 3
The Changing Landscape of High Performance Computing
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch is the cutting edge of the changing landscape of HPC. Hear from Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Managing Director and Chief Technology Architect for this change strategy at BofA.

Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Managing Director, Chief Technology Architect & Global Head of Architecture, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, New York, NY



Session 4
12-1 pm Industry Luncheon for Conference Registrants.
Network with your Wall Street IT colleagues in a congenial luncheon period.

1-1:30 pm Coffee and dessert service in the exhibits.
Exclusive Show Viewing Time.

1:30-2:15 pm Concurrent Sessions (select one of two)



1:30-2:15 pm Session 5 - Concurrent Session
Linux Operating Systems for High Performance Results on Wall Street.
Linux is changing the way financial firms look at their operating system. What is the next Linux breakthrough? IBM will lead this session on Linux enterprise architecture in the global financial markets.
IBM sponsored session with Wall Street IT speakers.

Jean Staten Healy, Director of Cross-IBM Linux Strategy, IBM Corporation, Somers, NY
Leonard J. Santalucia, CTO, Business Development Manager, Certified Specialist, Vicom Infinity, Inc.
Feargal O'Sullivan, Head of Enterprise Software, America, NYSE Technologies
Thomas M. Befi, Vice President of Information Systems Services, Insurance Services Office, Inc.
Doug O'Flaherty, Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
Wall Street IT speakers.



1:30-2:15 pm Session 6- Concurrent Session
Scaling Up Low Latency Architecture for Accelerated Wall Street Trading.
Low Latency is a leading architecture to accelerate Wall Street trading. Speed of data communications and speed of transactional operations is paying for these investments.

Moderator: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Editor-in-Chief, Securities Industry News, New York, NY
Carl Trieloff, Senior Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat, Raleigh, NC
Robert C. Zak, Sr. Platform Architect, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel
Tom Donnelly, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Fujitsu America Inc.
Shawn McAllister, CTO, Solace Systems

2:30-3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions (select one of two)



2:30-3:15 pm Session 7 - Concurrent Session
Architecting the Best Superscale Linux Solutions for Wall Street
Only Oracle + Sun HPC solutions deliver maximum performance, efficiency, and scale out, coupled with the portability and clustering capabilities of Linux, all backed by enterprise-class support. In this session, you'll discover how Infiniband's inherent low latency, diskless boot over IB and dynamic provisioning, integrated with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, help leading financial firms drive down operating costs and deployment time, while accelerating application development and trading platforms performance. Learn more: Oracle + Sun HPC and Oracle Unbreakable Linux

Nicolas Dubé, Ph. D., Technical Director, High-Performance Computing, Oracle Corporation
Nicholas Kamparosyan, Linux & Virtualization, Global Business Unit, Oracle

Oracle sponsored session with Wall Street IT speakers.



2:30-3:15 pm Session 8 - Concurrent Session
High Speed Trading Can Leverage HPC-Cluster Techniques

HPC clusters have over the past decade become the dominant architecture for supercomputing. The hardware and software techniques pioneered in HPC clusters can also be applied to high-speed financial trading.

Dr. Chuck Seitz, Founder & President, Myricom
Intel speakers with Wall Street IT speakers.

3:15-4 pm Beverage service in the exhibits.
Exclusive Show Viewing Time.

4 pm Exhibits Conclude.



4-4:50 pm Session 9
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing on Wall Street offers robust opportunities. Cloud must accommodate compliance, security and internal controls. Private Clouds are an option being explored by many Wall Street firms. Come hear some plain talk beyond the media hype on Cloud today.

An important session to complete your day’s program.

Moderator: Steve Campbell, Contributing Editor, Tabor Communications, HPCwire.
Carl Trieloff, Senior Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat, Raleigh, NC
William F. Adiletta, President, TekFinancial Solutions
Per Hansen, Senior Director, Enterprise Marketing, Ciena
Jim Theodoras, VP Technology, Office of the CTO, ADVA Optical Networking
Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, BLADE Network Technologies

4-4:50 pm Conference Concludes.