Re: Computationally difficult problems

Posted by Luigi Ballabio on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Computationally-difficult-problems-tp9759p9760.html

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 18:29 +1000, Roger Ting wrote:
>     I am new to this area of study. I am wondering is there any
> problems in quantitative finance that need the design of efficient and
> parallel algorithms especially in the area of derivative pricing?

Hi Roger,
        since nobody else seems to answer, I'll just state the obvious---Monte
Carlo simulations.
Another possibility might be rolling back an asset on a tree; at any
step, different result nodes are independent and could be calculated
simultaneously.

Luigi


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