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Re:Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microben... by WhitneyLand on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:17AM (#16891503)
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.

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Re:Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microben... by dogma1138 on Saturday April 21, 2018 @11:58AM (#16891907)
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/

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Re:Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microben... by nylonstrung on Monday April 23, 2018 @12:37PM (#16904994)
Citadel is not a pure play quant fund, they have a ton of PMs doing conventional fundamental equities
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Re:Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microben... by WhitneyLand on Saturday April 21, 2018 @11:09PM (#16894521)
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.

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