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In essence, this approach was very appealing in terms of performance, development time, and cost (essentially free). Although faster and more efficient implementations are possible (e.g. C/C++ and Fortran with open-MPI , the aforementioned implementation was sufficient for our purposes).

The code utilized was initially developed for sequential execution (in SAS ) and then converted to R with similar performance. It was subsequently converted from sequential to parallel to exploit the benefits of a parallel R -implementation. The standard steps for this conversion process are pretty standard, essentially:

1. We identify the loops which carry independent computations. we have two main loops. Firstly, simulating J portfolios can be regarded as J independent operations, which we can execute concurrently. Secondly, running the algorithm over a number of N years, can be regarded as N independent computational efforts.
2. Vectorize loops ( Workhorse Functions).
3. Gather results ( Combine/Gather Functions).
4. Distribute Execution (Call functions with snow ).

Several 64 processor jobs were submitted to Rice's Cray XD1 Research Cluster (ADA) - occupying 16 nodes, each with a total of 4 processors. The jobs would take less than 20 hours to complete, for about 64 simulated tracks of 40 years each.

Preliminary results

Several simulations were run with observed, above average performance (number of portfolios inspected per simulation was in the range of $J=25,000$ to $J=50,000$ ). Figure 1 shows a simulation of $J=50,000$ portfolios per year over a period of 43 years. Several interesting features can be noted through this figure. We can appreciate that any investor that made up a portfolio with an initial investment of $100,000 in 1970 and selected the same stocks chosen by our algorithm would have allowed his or her portfolio to compound to a total of$3.7M (by the end of 2008), which performed better than both an equal-investment strategy in the S&P 500 Index (about $2.7M) or a market-cap weighted investment strategy in the S&P 500 Index (slightly below$1M). Of course, we can imagine that the computational power that was used was not available in the early seventies, but moving forward it will be and to an extent this is what matters. Also it is clearly seen that the Coordinated Max-Median Rule is inherently a more volatile rule (as compared to the S&P 500). Next, Figure 2 describes 1 of 3 pilot runs that were evaluated with various measures suggesting the superiority of the max-median (as opposed to, say for instance the mean, as well as the benefit of using the “max” rather than the “min”). This seems plausible, at least heuristically, as the median is most robust (the mean is least robust), and in some sense the previous years “best” performing companies are more likely to perform better next year than the previous years “worst” performing companies (in terms of returns).

where we get a research paper on Nano chemistry....?
nanopartical of organic/inorganic / physical chemistry , pdf / thesis / review
Ali
what are the products of Nano chemistry?
There are lots of products of nano chemistry... Like nano coatings.....carbon fiber.. And lots of others..
learn
Even nanotechnology is pretty much all about chemistry... Its the chemistry on quantum or atomic level
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da
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Bhagvanji
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Giriraj
Preparation and Applications of Nanomaterial for Drug Delivery
revolt
da
Application of nanotechnology in medicine
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ya I also want to know the raman spectra
Bhagvanji
I only see partial conversation and what's the question here!
what about nanotechnology for water purification
please someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think one can use nanoparticles, specially silver nanoparticles for water treatment.
Damian
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Professor
I think
Professor
Nasa has use it in the 60's, copper as water purification in the moon travel.
Alexandre
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Alexandre
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Rafiq
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Damian
How we are making nano material?
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LITNING
scanning tunneling microscope
Sahil
how nano science is used for hydrophobicity
Santosh
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Rafiq
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Mahi
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Anam
analytical skills graphene is prepared to kill any type viruses .
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Any one who tell me about Preparation and application of Nanomaterial for drug Delivery
Hafiz
what is Nano technology ?
write examples of Nano molecule?
Bob
The nanotechnology is as new science, to scale nanometric
brayan
nanotechnology is the study, desing, synthesis, manipulation and application of materials and functional systems through control of matter at nanoscale
Damian
Is there any normative that regulates the use of silver nanoparticles?
what king of growth are you checking .?
Renato
What fields keep nano created devices from performing or assimulating ? Magnetic fields ? Are do they assimilate ?
why we need to study biomolecules, molecular biology in nanotechnology?
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Kyle
yes I'm doing my masters in nanotechnology, we are being studying all these domains as well..
why?
what school?
Kyle
biomolecules are e building blocks of every organics and inorganic materials.
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