Remotified
Posting is a bit light as I grapple with remote access from the twisty perils of Caddillac Mountain in Bar Harbor, Maine. But even as I attempt to relax, technology and the hustle of modern Wall Street is no farther from my mind.
What has my goat today (mountain goat if you will) is the issue of remote access to live and performant network systems.
Blogging has been hard enough from such a distant region, to say nothing of trading. I think a number of things conspire to keep high performance computing from reaching the mainstream. One is a lack of powrful handheld hardware. The Audiovox XV6700 that I am typing on is so underpowered that it borders on painful.
Yet we know that economies of scale enable the minds at Nintendo and Sony to provide millions of people the realtime gfx needed to power intense 3D graphics in the hand. Conversely Wall St. is still building hand held apps on weak pocket devices that use software to render graphics, save for a few emmerging devices that leverage the new mobile OpenGL spec.
I’ve often felt that Wall St. needs to demand more in the way of hardware innovation that goes beyond the cost of trasactions per minute.
If I am getting frustrated just typing this just imagine trying to manage trades on a device like this.
I will leave it that for now, but will extend this commentary when I recede to the bottom of the mountain in order to make you aware of some innovative technology to relieve us from this problem, ironically using broadband pipes and minimally powered hand devices. Would you be surprised to learn that it comes from NVidia?
More to come.
