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GPUs in Finance
Summary
Andrew Sheppard overviews the driving forces behind GPU’s adoption by the financial industry, and explains the use of the Monte Carlo technique on GPUs.
Bio
Andrew Sheppard is a financial consultant with extensive experience in quantitative financial analysis, trading-desk software development, and technical management. From 2006 to 2010, Andrew worked at a New York multi-strategy hedge fund. For more than three years, Andrew has been an active developer of GPU massively parallel software in C/C++ for real-time financial trading and risk.
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