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HPC for Financial Services

The financial services industry, including banking, investing, and insurance firms, is one of the most competitive, with a significant focus on customer retention and building market share. Faster response time, early fraud detection and customized offers all combine to improve the customer experience and build consumer trust. Established insurance, banking, and other financial services groups as well as financial technology (fintech) upstarts seek to capitalize on new technologies to improve returns and attract and retain more customers in a competitive global marketplace.

Financial Services use cases

High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
HPC for Financial Services
Statement from Nick Curcuru, Vice President of the Big Data practice at Mastercard Advisors.

How financial services institutions use HPC to turn ideas into reality
Mastercard uses HPC to protect against fraud

Mastercard is among the many payment-processing companies fighting back against fraud every second of every day by using sophisticated technologies. To identify and stop fraudulent transactions, Mastercard® leverages powerful HPC systems running machine learning (ML) algorithms to process large data sets at lightning-fast speeds, enabled by a Dell Technologies Validated Design.

Mastercard has built a secure, payment card industry (PCI) certified Hadoop® cluster based on Dell systems. Its fraud detection ML system uses supervised learning to look for established fraud patterns and unsupervised learning to identify emerging fraud patterns in real time.

4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors deliver increased performance for financial services, offering up to 45% higher average FSI performance vs. the prior generation.3

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High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC
High Performance Computing - HPC

Dell Validated Designs for HPC Financial Services


HPC boosts performance to reduce time to results. The Dell Validated Design for HPC — Risk Assessment runs data-intensive Monte Carlo simulations on powerful HPC systems optimized to accelerate Monte Carlo simulation results.

Rapid deployment and a faster time to results mean you realize a return on investment sooner. Accelerate adoption with modular IT building blocks. Dell Technologies HPC engineers and AI application experts provide a simplified design, configuration and ordering process.

Dell Validated Design for HPC Risk Assessment

Record-breaking results

The Dell Validated Design for HPC — Risk Assessment outperformed all existing systems when tested against the Financial services industry’s STACA2 benchmark. Many FSIs use this benchmark to judge how well a technology tack would do with other Financial HPC workloads.

1.23X better space efficiency

Record-setting space efficiency with 1.23X more calculations per cubic inch of data center space.

2.25X faster

Record-setting cold time calculations for baseline problem sizes.

1.15X faster

Record-setting cold time calculations for large-scale problem sizes.
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