Parallel systems in financial information processing

This paper reports on an ongoing investigation into the applicability of parallel systems in the processing of financial information. For the past five years a wide spectrum of issues has been investigated; this paper attempts to draw together this work as a coherent whole, and discusses past, present and planned activity. A number of case studies applying parallel systems to typical financial applications are described and, where appropriate, results presented. The commonality between the case studies is also discussed.