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Hardware requirements

Hardware requirements

Posted May 16, 2008 12:45 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Hardware requirements by epa
Parent article: New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek)

600 servers? What on earth are they doing? I thought a stock exchange was a pretty simple business.

I guess that while each transaction is simple, there are lots of them happening simultaneously on a very large stock exchange like NYSE. And maybe the code handling is written in Java with all buzzword-compliant middleware...


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