STAC Summit, 30 May 2024, Chicago
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STAC Summits bring together CTOs and other industry leaders responsible for solution architecture, infrastructure engineering, application development, machine learning/deep learning engineering, data engineering, and operational intelligence to discuss important technical challenges in trading and investment.
AGENDA
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Theme: GenAI in production |
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A number of financial firms stood up LLM POCs in 2023 and have now moved them into production on a limited basis. Those who have not are mostly planning to do so in 2024. Once a limited solution is in prod, AI architects will face the consequence of their success: demand for more users and use cases. Sessions in this segment of the agenda will explore possibilities and practicalities of supporting AI at scale in 2024. |
| STAC update: AI |
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Jack will provide a preliminary look into STAC-AI™, an LLM benchmark suite guided by the priorities of financial firms, which measures a full solution stack -- from the model to the metal™ |
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Theme: Risk & trading analytics architecture |
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Banks and hedge funds require more compute, storage, and networking to meet increasing demands for trading and risk analytics. Data volumes continue to balloon, regulations require more simulations, and new market opportunities require new analytics. However, generative AI has famously become a "gravity well" driving the product roadmaps of the major hardware and cloud providers. On the one hand, this may increase the options available for financial HPC and perhaps drive down long-term costs. On the other hand, AI architectures can differ in important ways from those of today's trading and risk analytics, reducing leverage from new products. Sessions in this segment will cover key innovations and how financial HPC can benefit. |
| STAC update: Risk computing |
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Jack will present the latest Council activities and benchmark results involving derivatives risk computation. |
| STAC update: Tick analytics |
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Jack will present the latest Council activities and benchmark results for deep time-series analytics. |
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Theme: Realtime trading architecture |
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Realtime trading architects have a lot to balance. On the one hand, they must continue to reduce latency by accelerating communications, making software faster, and making hardware smarter. On the other hand, data rates are ballooning, crypto is drawing deployments to the cloud, and compliance, risk, and cyber are competing for technology budget. Sessions in this segment will explore strategies for succeeding at this balancing act and key innovations that can help. |
| Staying cool at speed: Adding 25G to HFT accelerators |
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Supporting 25G Ethernet can reduce the latency of FPGA or ASIC algorithms--but only if it is implemented well. Signal integrity, power, and thermal challenges exist all the way from the 25G IP, through the package, and across the PCB. In this talk, Ken will explore these challenges and present methods to analyze and resolve them so that you can achieve cool speed with 25G. |
| STAC update: Fast compute |
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Jack will discuss the latest research and Council activities related to STAC-ML, benchmarks for low-latency LSTM inference on market data. |
| Big distances, tiny tolerances: Making time sync precise over a wide area |
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Building a time-synchronization network spanning multiple data centers within a metropolitan area is a formidable challenge, particularly when the requirements include fault tolerance, nanosecond accuracy, and traceability to UTC(NIST). Quincy Data undertook this challenge, using White Rabbit in Chicago and New Jersey to synchronize across the major trading venues and using GNSS to connect these metros into a single clock domain. Come to hear Mike explain some of the problems Quincy encountered in design and implementation and how they overcame them. |
| STAC update: Network I/O |
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Jack will discuss the latest Council activities and test results relating to network stacks in the cloud and on the ground. |
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And more... |
| Innovation Roundups | |
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Presentations on cloud, bare metal, connectivity, analytics, software, and FPGA ecosystems from a growing list of vendors, including Adaptive, AMD, Blackcore Technologies, DDN, Dell Technologies, Exegy, Hammerspace, Keysight, LDA Technologies, LINBIT, Myrtle.ai, NovaSparks, Options, Oracle Orthogone, Pure Storage, Scaleflux, Shengli Technologies, and Supermicro. |
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