GPU (CUDA) supercomputing technologies for real-time financial trading and risk

First it was FPGA technology now its time for (GPU programming / high performance computing HPC) Graphical Processing Unit  supercomputing technologies. GPU supercomputing is perfect for Trading Systems for its ability to speed up many types of financial calculations. GPU (CUDA) supercomputing technologies has  made significant inroads into financial analytics and risk arena what looks like a silent revolution on Wall Street. Only Institutional  Banks / Hedge Funds with financial capability and  technology knowhow are currently using GPU (CUDA) supercomputing technologies for real-time financial trading and risk.

The power of high speed GPU programming gives traders ability to  trades almost in real-time, thus it pays to be there first and ahead of the trading game. For more info on GPU/CUDA computing please visit Nvidia’s developer zone

Will FPGA & GPU technologies live the hype in finance? So, what can GPUs do now and in future as a trading technology? And where do we go from here?

FPGA technology into the ultra low latency space. The Next Wave of HFT Technology?

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology continues to gain momentum in Stock Trading for Ultra low latency connectivity and high-frequency trading (HFT) solutions. This new technology invented by Xilinx,  have gone from being simple glue logic chips to actually replacing custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and processors for signal processing and control applications. Because FPGAs run as an electrical circuit, they are configured with special programming languages known as Hardware Description Languages (HDL) such as VHDL and Verilog.  These languages are not as low level as assembly language but one does have to have deeper knowledge of the target hardware.

Xilinx and Altera are the two biggest manufacturers followed by Lattice, Actel, Quicklogic, SiliconBlue, Achronix, Tabula, and Tier Logic.  FPGAs vary in application, power consumption, and interfacing to standard buses to name a few.

Do you think this Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) in future will replace the existing trading system and become Next Wave of  high-frequency trading (HFT) Technology?