The heart of Hylton Socher’s kingdom at Greenwich, Connecticut­based multistrategy hedge fund Amaranth Group is located near the firm’s back elevators -- a chilly 3,600-square-foot data center protected by fingerprint identification checkpoints. On one side of the center’s large server room (protected by yet another fingerprint checkpoint) are immaculate rows of metal racks housing about 150 Dell servers and an equal number of UNIX-based computers, along with a couple of 6-foot-tall Sun Microsystems servers that run the firm’s database environment.
