Could simulation be done on a GPU ?

[albabosh]

This could be a usefull thing as one could run multiple simulations for a population at a reasonable time.

[Fredrik81]

I was running some heavy simulations for neural strat and noticed that only 1 CPU core was being used out of 8 on my zeon. Think it would be better to get it to use more cores as a first step so it can still be running on a headless server.

[JensvdHeydt]

All backtester scripts currently spawn multiple processes of the simulation so basically you already have that feature.

[Fredrik81]

When doing a backtester on neural strat there was one simulation that was running one core 100% and i could see the seconds slowly moving in time. With more cores active it could at least make it run more then 2x normal speed.

[JensvdHeydt]

You’re right and it’s also true for every other strategy. They all use one core only. That’s why the backtester usually starts multiple simulations at once. That’s what I was trying to say. Sorry if I didn’t explain it good enough.

[albabosh]

It is practically impossible to run genetic backtester with parameters shown in the readme (population=150, days=30, strategy=neural) on any cpu in a reasonable amount of time. Setting population & period to minimum makes no sence, as it gives bad results.

[DeviaVir]

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