Multicast Use in the Financial Industry

In this video from the 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop, Christopher Lameter from GenTwo presents: Multicast Use in the Financial Industry. "Multicast is used extensively in the financial industry to distribute event information about changes on the various markets as well as news item. Plus lot of internal communications are also dependent on rapid event propagation. Multicast can be used in creative ways to come up with autodiscovery and automatically reconfiguring cloud services. In some way Multicast allows adding node independent intelligence to a network. In some sense one can facilitate the process of talking to "communities" of servers and easily implement fallback as well as dynamically extend such an architecture. This talk gives an overview on how multicast is being used in the financial industry, presents the various challenges of using the RDMA API and InfiniBand for those purposes and also shows some creative uses of multicast for scaling cloud services." Learn more: https://www.openfabrics.org/index.php/about-the-2016-ofa-workshop.html Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter