What you're saying as that no one could get this stuff done before so the banks blew all of their money out of depression?

Only an idiot would want help from a person who kicked them in the leg.

Do you even know anything about what you're talking?
No, 'cause I'm really wondering right now.

I work for a bank, in fixed income division. Our desk trades on derivative credits and uses about 800 hours of calculation each night, on the company's farm of servers dedicated to aggregation.

Having performant hardware is not only important, but it is essential to the business, as everyone around (other banks, hedge funds, ...) are tightening their positions and risk management.

Thanks Intel for providing us with what we need to keep going. By the way, do I need to mention that we don't have so many Opterons? :D