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Computerworld: Q&A: Chicago Exchange CIO Says IT Helps Keep Up with Rivals

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 15, 2005

[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]

Are you looking at increasing processing
capability?
We moved over to your normal commodity,
Linux-based Intel processors. I’d like to say there’s both
horizontal scalability and vertical scalability that we need to
address. If you trade two products or multiple products, then you
can put one product on one server and another product on another
server, and in theory, that’s parallel processing. That’s what I
would call horizontal processing…”


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