Middleware and Performance Issues for Computational Finance Applications on Blue Gene/L
Phan, T.; Natarajan, R.; Mitsumori, S.; Yu, H.
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007. IPDPS 2007. IEEE International
Volume , Issue , 26-30 March 2007 Page(s):1 - 8
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370561
Summary:We discuss real-world case studies involving the implementation of a Web services middleware tier for the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer to support financial business applications. These programs that are representative of a class of modern financial analytics that take part in distributed business workflows and are heavily database-centric with input and output data stored in external SQL data warehouses. We describe the design issues related to the development of our middleware tier that provides a number of core features, including an automated SQL data extraction and staging gateway, a standardized high-level job specification schema, a well-defined Web services (SOAP) API for interoperability with other applications, and a secure HTML/JSP Web-based interface suitable for general users. Further, we provide observations on performance optimizations to support the relevant data movement requirements.
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