Regarding you machine... when you optimise Equalizer with the same ranges as is in SVN using Brute Force, how many seconds does it take? Or rather, how many strategies per second?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:42 PM, nonlinear5 <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I think this has been brought up before here, but has anyone actually > > used Amazon EC2 for JBT yet? I'm just curious about how effective > > this would be for back-testing -- especially where 64 bits, many cores > > and mucho RAM would be required. > > > I have a pretty powerful 8-core processor with 6Gb of RAM, so I didn't > have the need for EC2 yet, even when I ran optimization with the large > data sets. However, I did experiment with GridGain, which is a > framework for distributed optimization, and I found it very intuitive. > With just a few lines of code, JBT optimizer can actually run > distributed: > > http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader/browse_thread/thread/2d79da5a63758709/ > > There was at least one person who was planning to use EC2 with JBT, > but I am not sure how it went: > > http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=gg85sxIAAAChfaE5hFbyxyliuQ6sjOxt8rhlH0Pnl47z4AZhN98BFg > > > > -- Martin Koistinen Sisu Consulting www.sisuconsulting.com +44 7703 046 154 (mobile) +44 (0) 20 3286 3710 (London) +1 (678) 389-6676 (Atlanta) +1 (832) 426-3791 (Houston) 100% carbon-neutral as of 1-Jan-2008. "Act without Activism" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
