Millionths of a second can cost millions of dollars: A new way to track network delays
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 13:49
in Mathematics & Economics
Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing networking delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds -delays that can lead to multi-million dollar losses for investment banks running automatic stock trading systems. Similar delays can delay parallel processing in high performance cluster computing applications run by Fortune 500 companies and universities.