[stuntprogrammer]

Not kdb+, but a proprietary (internal-only) language that it heavily influenced was designed around execution on GPU clusters.

The FPGAs were used mainly for feedhandlers and there was a different DSL for that (compiling to verilog).

It was indeed rather something to see :)

[throwaway7645]

Was it received favorably? A secret sauce, or a failed project.

[stuntprogrammer]

Secret sauce, at least for the team involved, and well-received. Nice combination of extreme perf and decent productivity for them.

I've moved into non-finance stuff for quite a while now though, so not sure what's become of it. Given business challenges in that particular sub-field, who knows..