Unified Corporate Grid
We integrate multiple calculation engines under a single orchestration environment.
High Performance & Grid Computing for Financial Environments
We unify fragmented infrastructures into high-performance corporate grids capable of running massive financial calculation workloads with hybrid architectures, cloud elasticity, and CPU utilization close to 99%.
- IBM Spectrum Symphony
- Slurm
- PXE Boot
- AWS
- Azure
- Linux RAM-boot
- +130.000 cores gestionados
- ~99% CPU util.
- FRTB · Basilea III · DORA
What's included
Key capabilities
At Vermont Solutions, we design centralized computing ecosystems based on IBM Spectrum Symphony and hybrid cloud, dynamically redistributing workloads to maximize performance and reduce infrastructure costs.
Cloud Bursting and High Availability
We extend the grid to AWS or Azure to absorb demand peaks automatically.
Accelerated server integration
We implement network boot and optimized Linux systems loaded into RAM.
Migration from legacy orchestrators
We migrate platforms such as TIBCO GridServer to IBM Spectrum Symphony.
Results
Proven at financial production scale
Hybrid architectures make it possible to reduce RTO from 6 hours to less than 1 hour through automatic cloud failover.
REAL CASE · INVESTMENT BANKING
-40%
average reduction in compute times after migrating to IBM Spectrum Symphony
~99% CPU
sustained utilization on a unified corporate grid
130,000+ cores · 300M tasks/day · AWS/Azure cloud bursting
Related products and services
Observability and acceleration for your grid
Monitor HPC
End-to-end observability of your financial grid: core utilization, queues, latencies and SLA per business line in real time.
View Monitor HPC →IBM Spectrum Symphony Add-on
Our own extension for regulated financial environments: high availability, auditable evidence and advanced orchestration on IBM Spectrum Symphony.
View IBM Add-on →Is your grid missing regulatory close deadlines, or unable to scale during market peaks?
Book a technical session →Frequently asked questions
When does a company need HPC instead of conventional cloud?
HPC is necessary when processing times are a critical business factor: real-time risk scoring, Monte Carlo simulations for financial portfolios, or massive actuarial calculations. Conventional cloud is sufficient for workloads that tolerate latencies of minutes. Vermont Solutions assessed the workload profile of a financial client and reduced the integration time for new nodes from 52 days to under 24 hours using PXE Boot over the network.
Which sectors beyond banking use HPC?
In addition to banking and insurance, HPC is critical in energy (simulation of power grids and renewables), aerospace and defense (CFD and structural simulation), the pharmaceutical sector (drug discovery and genomics) and public administration (climate modeling). Vermont Solutions has experience in banking, insurance and industrial utilities.
What is IBM Spectrum Symphony and which environments is it suited for?
IBM Spectrum Symphony is a workload manager for high-demand distributed computing environments, widely used in investment banking for portfolio and risk management. Vermont Solutions developed a proprietary Add-on that extends its capabilities for financial environments requiring high availability and regulatory audit.
What is the difference between HPC and Grid Computing?
HPC (High-Performance Computing) groups tightly coupled nodes with low-latency interconnect to solve a compute-intensive workload as a whole; Grid Computing distributes many independent tasks across heterogeneous, often geographically dispersed, nodes. In banking and insurance the two are combined: a grid orchestrator such as IBM Spectrum Symphony launches thousands of risk or actuarial tasks on HPC infrastructure. Vermont Solutions designs, deploys and operates both, as well as their integration.
What is PXE Boot provisioning and why does it accelerate node deployment?
PXE Boot (Preboot eXecution Environment) boots compute nodes over the network from a central image, rather than installing and maintaining the operating system machine by machine. It allows nodes to be added, rebuilt or repurposed in minutes with a homogeneous, auditable configuration — key to scaling HPC clusters and maximizing CPU utilization. Vermont Solutions uses it to accelerate node provisioning in mission-critical computing environments.