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I do :)

• yeukhon 13y ago
  Why do you guys [I assume Bloomberg] use POWERS or SPARC?
  • apaprocki 13y ago
    Probably like any of their other customers, there is a framework which was developed that runs on big-endian hardware and the development cost to certify (read: not the porting work) that calculations are correct if switched to x86 is not necessarily worth it as long as the machines follow Moore's law just like any other hardware. These machines represent a tiny tiny portion of overall machines, but have certain properties that make them nice for certain functions. They can handle a lot of I/O and can reduce software complexity for certain jobs which actually don't need to scale horizontally.