Low-Latency Technology Outpacing Programmers’ Capabilities
Posted May 30th, 2008 by steveh
"Again and again, executives said that finding enough programmers who are able to write "parallel" code -- programs that efficiently divide workloads across distributed processors -- is almost impossible. As Wall Street firms rely on multicore processing and even distributed computing to handle the ever-growing number of trade-related messages that are sensitive to any increase in data latency, the divergence between the capabilities of the technology and the capabilities of the programmers is becoming painfully evident.",





