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09/12/2006, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker:
Michael Di Stefano, Vice President of Architecture, Financial Services, GemStone Systems.
As computational grids have rapidly grown over the last few years from the more limited prototype phase to a critical component of core infrastructure, data bottlenecks have emerged as the limiting scalability factor in many use-cases. From a pure horizontal scale-out perspective, databases, shared file systems, and the use of schedulers to route data needed for task execution have created an artificial upper-bound on the useful size of grids. Data issues have also had an impact on the types of applications that can be migrated to the grid. Generally, those that are less data-intensive (both in volume and breadth) have been the best candidates for early-adoption.
The presentation will introduce the new category of software--Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF) technologies-that are specifically designed to address these points by providing a robust and massively scalable distributed main-memory based operational data infrastructure. After explaining the technology innovations that allow EDF and hardware features to be effectively combined for use by grids, use cases will be discussed where EDF technology has been used to facilitate massive-scale grid calculations in risk analytics and pricing calculations in financial
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