Archive for the 'Data Grid' Category
GigaSpaces 6.0 - Download Now!
June 21st, 2007Last week we announced the upcoming release of GigaSpaces version 6.0 dubbed the Extreme Application Platform (or XAP - pronounced Zap!).
This week we made Release Candidate 1 publicly available for download (until now it was only available for members of our Early Access Program ). Below are some useful links and the full text of [...]
Excel that Scales - Grid Meets the Middle Office
May 16th, 2007
Andy Doddington of Bank of America discusses how the firm used GigaSpaces ' implementation of JavaSpaces technology to build a scalable trading analytics application for the middle office in the following paper City#Grid Special Report (Page 12)
Andy raises interesting points about common challenges we're seeing in middle office analytical applications built with Microsoft Excel:
"As [...]
Network latency vs. end-to-end latency
May 4th, 2007Geva Perry wrote an excellent blog on Extreme Transactions processing on wall street.
"So basically you now have thousands and thousands of machines buying and selling stocks and other securities from other machines based on extremely complex (and automated) computer models. So it has become a latency game — low-latency, that is."
When it comes to [...]
Why browse when you can simply search?
April 23rd, 2007I had interesting discussions in the past few weeks about the use of Object Graphs and how that approach maps into a space model. It reminds me of the discussions I use to have when I used Versant as an object database and object store in the late 90s. Object Graphs assume a certain hierarchy [...]
“Share Nothing Architecture” redefined
April 6th, 2007"Share Nothing Architecture" is a common pattern for scaling out Web applications.
Generally speaking, the idea is to remove dependency between the scaling units, which in the case of a Web application means the Web Servers. Once these units become independent from each other, you can easily scale them just by adding more units. You can [...]
