• DocumentCode
    244698
  • Title

    Going parallel over the rainbow

  • Author

    Alesii, Giuseppe

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. dell´Aquila, Coppito di L´Aquila, Italy
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    746
  • Lastpage
    757
  • Abstract
    Some parallel algorithms are proposed to speed up computation of multivariate lattices used to evaluate rainbow options. These novel algorithms have been programmed using multi-threaded syntax in Gausstm of Aptech honing codes for 32 and 128 cores machines. Actual scaling is linear or superlinear in excess of Amdahl theoretical thresholds. Rainbow options have been valued with several multivariate lattices models programmed according to our parallelization algorithms providing results not found in extant literature in terms of granularity and convergence. Keywords: Rainbow Options, multivariate binomial lattices, multivariate trinomial lattices, parallel computation, multithreaded programming, multicore machines.
  • Keywords
    multi-threading; multiprocessing systems; parallel algorithms; actual scaling; multicore machines; multithreaded programming; multithreaded syntax; multivariate binomial lattices; multivariate lattices models; multivariate trinomial lattices; parallel algorithms; parallel computation; parallelization algorithms; rainbow options; Computational modeling; Contracts; Cost accounting; Indexes; Joints; Lattices; Security; Aptech Gauss; OpenMP; derivatives pricing; multivariate binomial/trinomial lattices; pthreads;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 2014 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bologna
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-5312-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HPCSim.2014.6903764
  • Filename
    6903764