Which Processor to use for a workstation in the financial industry

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:20:18 GMT

Good Morning,

I'm a new user in this forum. My company is a small hedge fund in the financial industry and we are looking to replace our old worstations with newer ones. We are a bit confused with the choice of the processor, mainly the differences between an I7 and a Xeon and what we should take. These workstations will need to run 24/7 a lot of financial related software like bloomberg, reuters and other real time programms. All our important data are already saved on a server (that we are not intending to change => we are just looking at individual workstations). Typicaly, we often have something like 8-10 Excel opened, 1 bloomberg, 1 reuters, 1 matlab / mathematica, 1 Eclipse / 1 Visual studio and some background processing for simulation purposes. We don't care about graphical performances or multimedia performances, it's all about having a strong and reliable computer that can support an important amount of load (a lot of programms running a the same times for long periods). It's not really a matter of how fast computation can be done but rather more how much program can we run efficiently without the computer crashing or being too slow (is it a RAM problem ?). Money is also a concern as the price differences seems important between the 2 processors.

What could you advice ?

Thanks

rgds

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