Brigade Combat Systems with Air support.

Introduction

We are seeing a convergence between the sort of technologies that the US Armed Forces Brigade Combat Team Modernization Program and aggressive US investment banks adopt to win battles with minimal casualties or to profit with minimal losses.

I am involved in projects within an investment bank and the US armed forces that use the same infrastructure technology, such as ICE, to achieve extremely low latencies with respect to communication, data access and numerical analysis; as well as to handle tens of thousands of objects that change state, in fairly random manner. The infrastructure is also required to be be fault tolerant, which means that failure or destruction of components may degrade the system gracefully with respect to performance, but should have no impact on its functionality.

The objective for this blog is not for me to teach, but for being taught by a diversified community of people, who may have better ideas and/or better understanding of the application domain and applicability of technology under discussion.

Malin Lindquist (Tokyo/Japan)