At Lehman Brothers, H-P Cluster Quietly Supports Parallel Processing For Derivative Applications
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One-time Lehman Brothers Inc. trading technology chief Steve Gott was often known to assert that the firm's only trading technology standard is Sun Microsystems Inc. Unix- based workstations. Word has now emerged, however, that Lehman has for some time relied on a cluster of 20 Hewlett- Packard Co. HP 9000 Series 735 servers to support its derivatives trading group -- and continues to believe they provide better bang for the buck than their Sun-marketed counterparts.
H-P's processors, which are
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