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SUMMARY:Building distributed financial trading systems (Part 1) - Oli Bage
 \, Morgan Stanley
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CONTACT:Minor Gordon
DESCRIPTION:"Morgan Stanley":http://www.morganstanley.com/ spend around $3
  billion each year on technology for their global securities trading busin
 ess. The majority of the application development takes place in-house\, us
 ing bespoke development frameworks that focus on performance\, stability a
 nd the ability to deliver new functionality very quickly. In this talk rep
 resentatives from Morgan Stanley will present practical example problems f
 or discussion from their existing systems. They will also talk about some 
 of the more challenging distributed systems problems they face when design
 ing the large scale trading systems of the future.\n\nPart one will introd
 uce the context of Morgan Stanley's business\, the use of technology in th
 e trading division\, the high level architecture of the global distributed
  trading system\, and a complex messaging problem that arises from managin
 g thousands of independently configured processes which must operate as on
 e complete system.
LOCATION:Room FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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