These paddles allowed us to control the level of regeneration in real-time, and we were sometimes utilizing them instead of hitting the brakes as traffic changed.

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The development of CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia, the leading GPU company, in 2006-2007, changed everything, said Hanweck, who founded Hanweck Associates, to develop a low latency, real-time options analytics engine to price and manage risk for options using GPUs.

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