• DocumentCode
    2987903
  • Title

    Hardware architectures for Monte-Carlo based financial simulations

  • Author

    Thomas, David B. ; Bower, Jacob A. ; Luk, Wayne

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. London
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    377
  • Lastpage
    380
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a methodology and the results of implementing Monte-Carlo financial simulations in reconfigurable devices. Five different Monte-Carlo simulations are explored, including log-normal price movements, correlated asset value-at-risk calculation, and price movements under the GARCH model. Our results show that hardware implementations from our approach on a Xilinx Virtex-4 XC4VSX55 device run on-average 80 times faster than software on a 2.66GHz PC
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; field programmable gate arrays; financial data processing; microprocessor chips; reconfigurable architectures; 2.66 GHz; GARCH model; Monte-Carlo financial simulations; Xilinx Virtex-4 XC4VSX55 device; correlated asset value-at-risk calculation; hardware architectures; log-normal price movements; reconfigurable devices; Communication channels; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Costs; Delay; Electronic equipment testing; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Pricing; Random number generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Field Programmable Technology, 2006. FPT 2006. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bangkok
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9729-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-9729-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FPT.2006.270352
  • Filename
    4042474