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Our Technology Stack

Discover how we leverage cutting-edge hardware acceleration to deliver institutional-grade performance for quantitative finance applications.

Parallel Processing at Scale

Our technology stack leverages the full power of modern hardware, from GPU acceleration to SIMD instructions, delivering performance that traditional solutions can't match.

GPU Acceleration

Custom CUDA kernels process millions of data points in parallel

SIMD Optimization

Vectorized CPU instructions for when GPU isn't available

Zero-Copy Memory

Efficient memory management eliminates unnecessary overhead

Performance Multiplier vs Standard CPU

GPU (CUDA)26.7x
SIMD (AVX-512)15x
Standard CPU1x

Note: Benchmarks based on processing 1M candlestick data points for technical indicators

Average SIMD speed-up
22×
Peak GPU acceleration
1 M+
Candles / second processed

Benchmarked on NVIDIA RTX 4090 with one million candles per indicator

GPU Acceleration

Our CUDA kernels are meticulously optimized for modern NVIDIA GPUs, achieving massive parallelization for technical indicator calculations.

  • • Custom memory coalescing patterns
  • • Warp-level primitives for reductions
  • • Shared memory optimization
  • • Multi-stream concurrent execution

SIMD Optimization

Leveraging AVX2 and AVX-512 instruction sets for vectorized CPU computations, processing multiple data points in a single instruction.

  • • Hand-tuned assembly for critical paths
  • • Runtime CPU feature detection
  • • Aligned memory allocation
  • • Compiler intrinsics for portability

Performance Benchmarks

Simple Moving Average

1M candles processed

22x

faster than CPU

RSI Calculation

100k candles processed

3x

faster with SIMD

Bollinger Bands

1M candles processed

18x

GPU acceleration

Benchmarked on NVIDIA RTX 4090 | AMD 9950X

*Performance varies by workload, data size, and hardware configuration

Open Source Philosophy

All VectorAlpha projects are open source, fostering transparency and community collaboration in quantitative finance.

Why Open Source?

  • Transparency builds trust in financial systems
  • Community contributions improve quality
  • Reproducible research advances the field
  • Lower barriers to entry democratize finance

Apache License 2.0

All VectorAlpha projects are released under the Apache License 2.0, providing maximum flexibility for both commercial and non-commercial use while ensuring contributions remain open.

This permissive license allows you to use, modify, and distribute our software in your own projects without viral licensing concerns.

Built with Modern Technologies

Rust

Memory safety without garbage collection. Zero-cost abstractions and fearless concurrency.

No Runtime Overhead
Thread Safety
Pattern Matching
Cargo Ecosystem

CUDA

Direct GPU programming for maximum performance. Custom kernels for financial computations.

Massive Parallelism
Shared Memory
Tensor Cores
Multi-GPU Support

WebAssembly

Near-native performance in browsers. Interactive demos without server infrastructure.

Browser Native
Sandboxed Security
Language Agnostic
Portable Binary

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