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Do you know whether numerical analysis has improved with .NET? I know Morgan Stanley was evaluating it a few (4? yow) years ago, but there were two main problem

Do you know whether numerical analysis has improved with .NET? I know Morgan Stanley was evaluating it a few (4? yow) years ago, but there were two main problems: - There were very few numerical libraries, and those that existed either had a high overhead (compared to, say, calling NAG from C++), or weren't very robust (didn't degrade well in edge cases). - A windows license for a server machine with > 32 GB of RAM cost an arm and a leg, so server farms got very expensive very quickly. (Oddly, the price of the license depended on the RAM of the machine involved.) It looks like NAG now has a .NET version, so hopefully things have improved. For a while, it seemed like math in .NET was strictly amateur hour, but I'm sure it's better now. I don't have the strength of will to research if the licensing cost has improved at all.

vyrotek 13y ago
"A windows license for a server machine with > 32 GB of RAM cost an arm and a leg, so server farms got very expensive very quickly. (Oddly, the price of the license depended on the RAM of the machine involved.)" FWIW, you now have these options in Windows Azure: - Memory Intensive VM (4 x 1.6GHz CPU, 28GB RAM, 1,000GB Storage) : $0.90/hr - Memory Intensive VM (8 x 1.6GHz CPU, 56GB RAM, 2,040GB Storage : $1.80/hr http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=cloud http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenar...
- oddthink 13y ago
  Interesting. I've heard good things about the Windows Azure program, but I don't think any cloud-based option will work for finance. People generally want to keep their servers and data in-house, for trade secret protection and regulatory purposes.
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    On the type of projects I work for, license costs are rounding errors. When you do big enterprise projects, and finance is such a case, there many higher costs associated with the project than what is paid in licenses.

vyrotek 13y ago

"A windows license for a server machine with > 32 GB of RAM cost an arm and a leg, so server farms got very expensive very quickly. (Oddly, the price of the license depended on the RAM of the machine involved.)" FWIW, you now have these options in Windows Azure: - Memory Intensive VM (4 x 1.6GHz CPU, 28GB RAM, 1,000GB Storage) : $0.90/hr - Memory Intensive VM (8 x 1.6GHz CPU, 56GB RAM, 2,040GB Storage : $1.80/hr http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=cloud http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenar...

oddthink 13y ago
Interesting. I've heard good things about the Windows Azure program, but I don't think any cloud-based option will work for finance. People generally want to keep their servers and data in-house, for trade secret protection and regulatory purposes.
- pjmlp 13y ago
  On the type of projects I work for, license costs are rounding errors. When you do big enterprise projects, and finance is such a case, there many higher costs associated with the project than what is paid in licenses.