Case Study: Lab49
ScaleOut Software / Lab49 Case Study
Read this case study to learn how ScaleOut StateServer Grid Computing Edition can deliver big gains for your applications in financial services.
High-performance computing is a story of eliminating bottlenecks - circumventing the limitations of a single machine, managing network usage, preventing oversubscription to scarce resources. Applications in financial services need to quickly process large amounts of data, and they often encounter bottlenecks in accessing data. Moreover, harnessing the power of multi-core, multi-server compute grids remains a formidable challenge.
ScaleOut StateServer Grid Computing Edition (SOSS/GCE) was designed to address these challenges. Its distributed cache stages data in-memory within the compute grid to avoid bottlenecks in accessing backing storage. SOSS/GCE also introduces a unique new feature called "parallel method invocation" (PMI), which provides two key benefits. PMI enables applications to reach maximum performance by letting the distributed cache schedule work on the compute nodes where the data already resides, eliminating unnecessary data motion. It also creates a "map/reduce" application framework that dramatically reduces development time while automatically harnessing the full power of a compute grid.
In this case study, ScaleOut Software partnered with Lab49 to evaluate the actual benefits of using ScaleOut StateServer Grid Computing Edition in a typical, real-world, financial services application. This study implemented a back-testing framework for automated equity trading strategies using SOSS/GCE's new PMI feature. The results were significant. Read the case study to learn about how SOSS/GCE helped this application deliver linearly scalable performance and avoid data motion which otherwise would saturate the grid's interconnect, delivering more than 5.7 times faster throughput than conventional approaches. The case study also reports how the use of PMI's easy-to-use framework kept design time to an absolute minimum.
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