Acceleration-as-a-service: Exploiting virtualised GPUs for a financial application

Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 47-56

  Varghese, Blesson ^a   Prades, Javier ^b   Reano, Carlos ^b   Silla, Federico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acceleration as a Service; CUDA; GPU computing; RCUDA; Virtualisation

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CUDA; FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS; FINANCIAL RISKS; GPU ACCELERATIONS; GPU COMPUTING; MULTIPLE NODES; RCUDA; VIRTUALISATION;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 84959042403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2015.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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