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There are a lot of people from the National Lab super computer world who end up in High Frequency Trading for just the reason you describe. Specifically, how d
by alexpotato 6y ago
There are a lot of people from the National Lab super computer world who end up in High Frequency Trading for just the reason you describe.
Specifically, how do you optimize a large cluster of computers to operate at the lowest possible latency. For the National Labs, those computers could be in the lab or with other labs around the world. For the HFT folks, the machines could be in an exchange or spread across multiple exchanges around the world.
Source: I used to be head of Global Latency Monitoring for a HFT.
- funfunfunction 6y agoHey I’d love to pick your brain about what it takes to do this kind of work coming from a web/systems engineering background. Shoot me an email at samheutmaker at gmail if you’re open to it.
- j88439h84 6y agoI'm curious why you moved to LLNL from HFT?
- eyegor 6y agoMoney is a safe guess. Research pay scales aren't even close to private sector, especially not finance.
- dwohnitmok 6y agoIt sounds like the opposite direction happened here.