Who: HPC Platform was founded in 2007 and resulted from research and projects beginning in 2005. For the last 3 years, most of the work has been done with leading investment banks.
The co-founders have combined experiences in Finance, IT, electronics, and software and some of them have worked on HPC solutions for the medical, military and industrial market since 1995.
HPC Platform is currently raising capital for its next development phase.

What: For its solutions, HPCP focused on a dedicated and global "Platform environment" comprising a modular hardware appliance, specialized compilers (DSL - Domain Specialized Language - compilers that will enable to abstract clients from the complexity of the advanced technologies used), optimized hardware cores and standard connectivity (Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-Express, etc.). This modular architecture aims at "Ease to use" and "Ease of integration" within the client business and IT organizations without compromizing the performances.
The HPC Platform solutions, for ultra low-latency market data processing and complex financial products valuations, are true appliances with an optimized modular architecture, DSL compilers and software environments that aim to enable customers to effectively use reconfigurable hardware technologies (FPGA).
To enable the most efficient use of HPCP solutions and architecture, HPCP is also providing consulting services to its clients in order to build with them the most optimized hardware-based processing systems that will help to keep them ahead of the market.

Why (you care): HPC Platform delivers outstanding performances that place it as a clear leader for ultra-low latency and High Performance financial Computing.
An example of this performance is market data processing with a latency of 1.1 to 2.0 microseconds for FAST encoded Feed-Handling/Filtering, order book processing and common events trigger rules (CEP).
For complex financial products valuation acceleration (from simple Monte Carlo European options pricing to complex products like Altiplano), HPCP delivers an acceleration of several orders of magnitude compared to multi-core servers: for example the price of a basket option composed of 3 underlyings is computed in double precision within 715 microseconds for 1M simulation paths.
HPCP intends to remain at the cutting edge of the technology and will even go below the 1 microsecond barrier for market data processing latency.

When: The HPC Platform solutions are already being evaluated in production environments in partnership with a few selected clients.
One "premier financial institution in France" is currently considering production deployment not only because of the microsecond latency metrics achieved but also because of the ease of use integration into legacy systems.