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Foil 23 Anecdotes from Running Stock Exchanges

From HPCC Applications in Industry IDA Presentation -- October 31,1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
SIAC runs the New York and American stock exchanges
Already uses parallel computing implemented appropriately on distributed networks ("embarrassingly parallel")
2 acres (~300) Tandem computers interfacing network of PC/workstations to calls from brokers
2000 stocks in NYSE decomposed in load balanced fashion over traders and associated PC's (~500)
Fault tolerance and network management are key issues
A few minutes downtime per year are allowed ........

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