John Nolan on the State of Hardware Acceleration with GPUs/FPGAs, Parallel Algorithm Design

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Multi-core,

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Financial Applications

John Nolan shows the state of hardware acceleration with GPUs and FPGAs, why it's hard to write efficient code for them, and why to favor polymorphism over if statements for performance.

•  By  John Nolan on Jan 19, 2012,
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