On: Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microbenchmarking

[dogma1138]

One of the largest US hedge funds.

[arbie → dogma1138]

GPGPUs and CUDA have been used for predictive financial analysis for some time now, haven't they?

[WhitneyLand → arbie]

A hedge fund backs research into GPUs because they may deal in finance and GPUs can be used for financial analysis?

Not a chance. This has nothing to do with their IT department or back office requirements.

[dogma1138 → WhitneyLand]

It is 100% from their "IT", Citadel is essentially a "Quant" firm.

https://www.citadel.com/careers/ultimate-guides/quantitative...

https://wei-tan.github.io/

https://www.citadel.com/careers/the-data-open/

[nylonstrung → dogma1138]

Citadel is not a pure play quant fund, they have a ton of PMs doing conventional fundamental equities

[WhitneyLand → dogma1138]

Ok, my mistake. Not a chance was the wrong way to put it.

The point is hedge funds have no fundamental link to algorithmic trading or requiring low level GPU optimization as a core competency.

Some of them do, and maybe the number is growing, but it’s a subset, not something that defines what a hedge fund has to be.