The Bridge to Digitalization

A reliable and secure IT infrastructure is of great importance for the financial sector, as most financial transactions are now processed via digital systems. A high-performance IT infrastructure is necessary to perform complex data analyses, protect sensitive data and fend off cyber attacks. The linking of finance and IT has also enabled the emergence of new business models and financial services. Scalability, integration of different IT systems and compliance with regulatory requirements are other important factors. An optimal IT infrastructure can help maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of finance, create new business opportunities, and increase customer confidence in the industry.

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The partnership between FI-TS, sysGen GmbH, NetApp, and
X-Cellent provides a comprehensive solution to support the financial sector on its path to digitalization and ensure a secure, efficient, and flexible IT infrastructure.

Fi-Ts: The IT service provider FI-TS wants to support banks and insurance companies on their way to the cloud. FI-TS has created its own solution for this purpose, the FI-TS Finance Cloud, using Kubernetes-based landscapes orchestrated by the DevOps developed by FI-TS. This enables flexible and efficient deployment of applications and services in the finance sector.
sysGen GmbH: Supplies the industry's largest selection of high-quality hardware for fully application-optimized server, storage, embedded/ioT and workstation solutions from Supermicro. These ensure high performance in the FI-TS environment.
NetApp: Storage solutions for deployment in the FI-TS environment.
X-Cellent: Providing open source software solutions for use in the FI-TS environment.

Building Blocks

Optimization of data centers with sysGen/ Supermicro servers

Modern data centers must meet a wide range of user requirements and application profiles.
sysGen/Supermicro servers can be optimized for a wide range of applications, whether they require the highest performance, large amounts of memory, high I/O bandwidth to storage devices, or massive network capacity. Different systems can be optimized for virtually any type of workload, and extremely accelerate the execution of these applications. In addition, certain Supermicro X13 products are designed to give IT administrators the flexibility to deploy them in different environments within the same product family.

As part of the business partnership between FI-TS and sysGen GmbH, sysGen supplies FI-TS with Supermicro's portfolio of high-performance systems for its data centers. This partnership enables FI-TS to provide reliable and secure IT infrastructure services to its customers while being able to scale and adapt to changing needs of its customers. The Green IT standard also ensures that the systems are environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

sysGen GmbH takes a "building blocks approach" to offering the industry's widest range of high-quality hardware for fully application-optimized server, storage, embedded/IoT and workstation solutions.

Supermicro Building Block Servers

Fast and efficient deployment of state-of-the-art servers with the latest technologies,
to stay ahead of the competition

Modern data centers must meet a wide range of user requirements and application profiles. SysGen/Supermicro servers can be optimized for a variety of applications, including the highest performance, large storage capacity, high I/O bandwidth, and massive network capacity. Various Supermicro systems can be optimized for these types of workloads and certain products, such as the Supermicro X13 series, are flexible to meet different environments.

The concept of "Building Blocks" allows us to quickly deliver new servers, such as Supermicro, with the latest technologies. Various systems that make up a modern server can be used in different form factors or application-optimized servers. In this way, we can quickly respond to new technologies from our suppliers and deliver new servers.

sysGen / Supermicro Twin-Server

Key Features
Four Nodes in 2U - IPMI 2.0 + KVM with Dedicated LAN, Redundant Power Option. Optimised for Compute
Intensive Applications, HPC, Enterprise Servers.

CPU: Intel Xeon/ AMD Epyc
Memory: Up tp 6TB
Drives: Up tp 24 hot swap NVMe/ SATA/SAS
PSU: Up tp 2200W Redudant Hot-Pluggable Power Supplies

sysGen/ Supermicro 4U 8-GPU System

Maximum Acceleration and Flexibility for AI/Deep Learning and HPC Applications

GPU: NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU with NVLink, or up to 10 double-width PCIe GPUs
CPU: Intel® Xeon® or AMD EPYC™
Memory: Up to 32 DIMMs, 8TB DRAM or
12TB DRAM with Intel Optane™ Persistent Memory
Drives: Up to 24 Hot-swap 2.5" SATA/SAS/NVMe

sysgen/ supermicro 2U 4-GPU System

High Performance and Balanced Solutions for Accelerated Computing Applications

GPU: NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU with NVLink, or up to 6 double-width PCIe GPUs
CPU: Intel® Xeon® or AMD EPYC™
Memory: Up to 32 DIMMs, 8TB
Drives: Up to 10 Hot-swap 2.5" SATA/SAS/NVMe

Finance made smart fit for all challenges

AI has the potential to transform the way banks operate. By helping them extract key insights from vast amounts of data, calculate risk, and automate routine tasks - all at unprecedented speed and scale - every business line and function can be improved. In this way, the AI-powered bank can increase productivity, expand services, reduce risk, and significantly improve customer service.

Where is AI already being used?

Banking

Building the AI-powered bank
The key to a successful AI implementation is a complete solution that includes both hardware and software - AI as a platform. This implementation of a common, centralized infrastructure for AI consolidates expertise, productivity and scale, shortens the lifecycle from development to deployment, and lowers total cost of ownership through efficient use of compute and storage resources.

Fraud detection

Using AI to Fight Fraud
Among AI's greatest successes is fighting transaction fraud at banks and credit card companies - a problem worth billions of dollars. Detecting real fraud is critical, but traditional systems have historically generated many more false positives than real fraud signals. Now, advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques with solutions like NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server improve fraud detection and reduce

Customer service

Conversational AI (e.g., chatbots) frees bankers to focus on higher-value interactions by enabling consumers to manage all types of financial transactions. The deep-learning models that must be trained to communicate in the domain-specific language of financial services require significant computing power. NVIDIA GPUs enable this performance with low latency.

Recommendation systems

Personalization of Banking Offers
Recommendation systems are used by banks and insurance companies to drive every customer action and deliver personalized messages to improve customer engagement and satisfaction, and increase conversion rates. NVIDIA Merlin™ is an end-to-end recommender-on-GPU framework that provides rapid feature engineering and high training throughput to enable rapid experimentation and productive retraining of deep learning models. Merlin also enables low-latency, high-throughput production inferencing to deliver personalized customer interactions with speed and accuracy to drive revenue.

NVIDIA CLOUD

NVIDIA Cloud is a cloud platform that provides organizations with GPU-based computing resources to tackle demanding AI and machine learning tasks in finance. The platform includes NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC), a certified and optimized platform that provides pre-built models and frameworks tailored to the specific needs of finance to help financial institutions develop and deploy AI models faster. NVIDIA Cloud is flexible and scalable, giving organizations the ability to manage and scale resources as needed to accelerate their AI development and deployment without worrying about the cost and complexity of setting up and maintaining their own infrastructure.

NVIDIA AI Enterprise®

Discover the potential of AI for financial services

There is an ever-growing list of AI applications for financial services, ranging from fraud detection to portfolio optimization. And based on a survey conducted by NVIDIA, AI deployment by top companies has skyrocketed. But nearly half of AI projects never make it into production, and implementation is hampered by familiar obstacles. In this e-book, learn how NVIDIA and VMware's full-stack software suite overcomes scaling challenges and unlocks the value of AI while enabling faster ROI.