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Foil 8 Financial Application areas for which High-performance computing technologies are becoming indispensable

From Overview of HPCC Applications at NPAC CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox


1 HPCC is becoming indispensable in the application domains such as:
  • Derivative Valuation -- particularly over-the-counter products and exotics
  • Portfolio optimization, valuation and asset allocation
  • Hedging of large portfolios in real time
  • Arbitrage trading
  • Risk analysis simulations
  • Pattern recognition
  • Detection of fraud
  • Credit risk analysis
  • Market segmentation
2 NPAC is engaged in development of new tools for quantitative financial modeling which take advantage of scalable computer architectures
3 The ultimate goal is to integrate various quantitative analysis transparently using Web technologies into a seamless cooperative computing environment, capable of supporting all aspects of enterprise-wide risk management.

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