2011 Conference Program

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2011 High Performance Linux Financial Markets Show & Conference, April 2, 2012

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Register for the full program. Save $100. Only $295. Your conference registration includes all general and concurrent sessions, industry luncheon, exhibits and handouts.

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

8 – 4 pm Exhibits open with exclusive show viewing times.

8:30 - 10 am Session 1

Keynote Panel: Smarter Systems for High Performance Computing (includes IBM Watson): 8:30-10 am
Financial firms are constantly facing pressure to create new revenue sources, optimize cost, and reduce risk. IBM will lead this session to address advances in Linux and HPC technologies that can help organizations address these challenges.

This session will also include an overview of IBM Watson, the High Performance Computing system consisting of 100 IBM Linux servers which decisively defeated two former Jeopardy! champions in a February 2011 televised match.

Moderator: Jean Staten Healy, Director, CrossIBM Linux, IBM Corporation
Vikram Mehta, CEO, BLADE Network Technologies, an IBM Company
Tom Befi, Vice President of Information Systems Services, Insurance Services Office, Inc.
Edward Epstein, Manager of Unstructured Information, IBM Research

10 - 11am Coffee Service in the Exhibits Exclusive show viewing times.

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

Session 2 Concurrent Session (select one of two)

Speed and Low Latency Drive Ultra High Speed Messaging and Execution at Wall Street Exchanges.
Intel's chip technology is driving ultra high speed messaging and execution for NASDAQ as well as other Wall Street exchanges. Messaging units are at 500 million per second and even greater. NASDAQ and the other exchanges are serving their Wall Street clients with ultra high speed arbitrage trading and HPC execution.

Moderator: Michael Feldman, Editor, HPCwire
Steve Pawlowski, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel Architecture Group, Intel
Thomas Fay, Vice President, NASDAQ OMX

Session 3 Concurrent Session (select one of two)

High Performance Programming on Linux in 2011 and beyond.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is putting Linux to work at BofA. Hear from Jeff Birnbaum, Managing Director Global Risk and Trading Systems for these technology changes of BofA.

Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Managing Director Global Risk and Trading Systems, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, New York, NY

Session 4
12 - 1:00pm Industry Luncheon for Conference Registrants Terrace Room Lobby Level.
Network with your Wall Street IT conference colleagues.

1-1:30pm Coffee and Dessert Service in the Exhibits
Exclusive show viewing times.

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

Session 5 Concurrent Session (select one of two)

Ultra High Speed Network Solutions for Large Data Centers and HPC Environments that are Defining Network Architecture.
Arista Networks is a leading architecture to accelerate Wall Street trading. Speed of data communications and speed of transaction operations is paying for these Wall Street investments.

Jayshree Ullal, President, CEO, Arista Networks

Session 6 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)

Scaling Up Low Latency, Virtualization, and Linux for Wall Street Operations.
Low Latency, Virtualization, and Linux are scaling up Wall Street to accelerate trading, increase back office efficiencies, reduce cost, and increase Wall Street technology investments by 7% in 2011.

Peter ffoulkes, Vice President Marketing, Adaptive Computing – Representing Novell & Microsoft
Dr. Eng Lim Goh, CTO, Senior Vice President, SGI
Chuck Dubuque, Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat

2:15 - 2:30 pm Coffee Break in the Exhibits
Exclusive show viewing time.

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

Session 7 Concurrent Session (select one of two)

High Performance Ultra Low Latency Switches and Network Architecture is Changing the Way Wall Street does Business.
Low Latency, Virtualization, and Linux are scaling up Wall Street to accelerate trading, increase back office efficiencies, reduce cost, and increase Wall Street technology investments by 7% in 2011.

Vikram Mehta, CEO, BLADE Network Technologies, an IBM Company
Nan Boden, CEO, Myricom
Jason Tesarz, Director of Engineering, Torrey Point
Moderator: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Editorial Director, Money Management Group, SourceMedia

Session 8 Concurrent Session (select one of two)

High Speed Workstation and Data Center Management to Leverage Low Latency and Linux Systems.
Super computing workstations and data centers are leveraging technology investments to create new profit centers and reduce cost of operations.

James E. Hoffman, Vice President Advanced Technologies Group, Tekmark Global Solutions
Dan Potts, Fusion IO
Subhendu Ghosh, Red Hat

3:15-4 pm Beverage Service in the Exhibits
Exclusive show viewing times.

4-4:50 pm Session 9

Leveraging Cloud Computing for a Competitive Advantage
Cloud Computing is the new buzz throughout technology and financial services industries. How are firms actually using Cloud to gain a competitive advantage? NYSE Technologies is adopting a software as a services (SaaS) model to further evolve its large global community of financial firms. How are industry practitioners using and planning to use, cloud computing to drive their business strategy?

Featured speaker: Stanley Young, CEO, NYSE Technologies.
Feargal O'Sullivan, VP, Platform Development, NYSE Technologies
Jarrod Yuster, CEO, Pico Quantitative Trading
Moderator: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Editorial Director, Money Management Group, SourceMedia

4 pm Exhibits Conclude.

4:50 pm Conference Concludes.

Speakers and Program subject to change.
More speakers and topics to come.

2012 High Performance Computing
Linux for Wall Street

April 2, 2012
Roosevelt Hotel
Grand Central Station, NYC