In today’s fast-paced economy, when it comes to money, anybody on Wall Street can tell you that every second counts. But no more do we see the bustle of human activity down on the floor of the stock exchange with brokers frantically running to and fro to buy and sell. Make your ICC-powered HFT server and workstation make great decisions for you faster than ever before. The frenzy of human activity has been replaced by the hum of computers, doing thousands more calculations per second than people ever could and ever will.

Towards the end of 2012, we formed a partnership with CoolIT Systems, a provider of innovative and state-of-the-art cooling technology. Their liquid cooling solutions are some of the hottest on the market, enabling increased levels of performance and reliability in advanced system designs.

As we near the end of 2011, we take a moment to reflect on the past year. It’s been a busy year for IT across virtually all verticals, from mobile and search to enterprise servers and cloud computing. When we attended HPC360 a few weeks ago, we had the pleasure to attend a keynote presentation by Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect Research in which he discussed the most important trends in high performance computing (HPC).