Grid Computing Case Studies

Large Mortgage Originator, a leader in fixed income asset trading, increased the speed of pricing analysis calculations by 9X with the Digipede Network, thereby enabling its “quants” to identify more profitable trading opportunities faster.

III Offshore Advisors, a $4B fixed income asset manager, uses the Digipede Network to get into the market faster with new algorithms for pricing, trading, and risk management. Digipede has enabled the hedge fund to perform a whole suite of simulations quickly and accurately, and to identify more arbitrage opportunities than ever before.

Digital Dimension, an award-winning studio that specializes in high-end visual effects, adopted the Digipede Network to create digital content across hundreds of diverse CPUs. Digipede has helped the studio meet critical deadlines, adapt quickly to fluctuating schedules, and get a complete picture of the entire production pipeline—all without having to add new IT staff.

This leading investment advisor successfully manages billions of dollars, and uses the Digipede Network to distribute complex calculations across several dozen servers. Digipede helped the company save money on IT resources, increase the productivity of its technical staff, and provide better service to its clients.

The Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), part of the Novartis Research Foundation, uses the Digipede Network to increase the speed and throughput of genome searches conducted through its public Web site. The FMI can now support more simultaneous users with a higher quality of service for its innovative PromoterPlot search tool.

InBoxer, Inc., a developer of powerful email filtering software, deployed the Digipede Network to accelerate its product development cycle. The company can now evaluate new solutions more efficiently and make product improvements faster because Digipede cut analysis jobs from 8 hours down to 40 minutes.

Pacific Events manages thousands of social and corporate events each year. The Digipede Network enabled the company scale its Web-based reporting applications by an order of magnitude, so that employees, vendors, and clients all stay on the same page.

Trekk Cross-Media, an innovative marketing, communication, and promotional agency, deployed the Digipede Network to eliminate performance bottlenecks in the production of highly customized direct mail piece. This not only helped the company complete a critical job, but also now lets Trekk to compete successfully for other large contracts.