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Not kdb+, but a proprietary (internal-only) language that it heavily influenced was designed around execution on GPU clusters. The FPGAs were used mainly for f
by stuntprogrammer 9y ago
Not kdb+, but a proprietary (internal-only) language that it heavily influenced was designed around execution on GPU clusters.
The FPGAs were used mainly for feedhandlers and there was a different DSL for that (compiling to verilog).
It was indeed rather something to see :)
- throwaway7645 9y agoWas it received favorably? A secret sauce, or a failed project.
- stuntprogrammer 9y agoSecret sauce, at least for the team involved, and well-received. Nice combination of extreme perf and decent productivity for them. I've moved into non-finance stuff for quite a while now though, so not sure what's become of it. Given business challenges in that particular sub-field, who knows..