Are Clouds Ready to Accelerate Ad Hoc Financial Simulations?

Proceedings - 2014 International Symposium on Big Data Computing, BDC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 54-63

  Varghese, Blesson ^a   Barker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregate Risk Analysis; cloud computing; financial risk; heterogeneous computing; risk simulation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA HANDLING; FINANCE; HARDWARE; OUTSOURCING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AGGREGATE RISK; COMPUTATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE; FINANCIAL RISKS; FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRIES; FINANCIAL SIMULATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84962857985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BDC.2014.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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