The Low Latency lab continues to focus on requirements within the Financial Services industry and evolved low latency messaging solutions that can deliver millions of messages per second with latency in microseconds. Work also continues on developing an Algorithmic Trading Platform that can allow traders to define algorithms, evaluate them, allowing them execute orders more efficiently. Findings and components from our low latency messaging solution are being generalized towards the development of a Universal Messaging Solution that can cater to other business domains as well. Some of our papers submitted this year on low latency messaging solution have been well accepted at international conferences.

The Technology Calibration Lab and Multicore Lab continue to evaluate upcoming infrastructure trends in the multicore sever and storage space that could be suitable to designing business applications. A Calibration Suite has been created to evaluate performance and scalability of emerging technologies for a
variety of applications relevant to our customers. This vendor neutral suite is now in use to determine which platform is best suited for a given customer problem.

The FASTEST framework has been built for System Performance Testing with features that complement those available in the market today while also integrating industry standard solutionsas well as emerging solutions in the performance testing space.
FASTEST also has a zero licensing option that scales to 10000 virtual users. Coupled with WAN and Database emulators, and along with low overhead, non-intrusive profilers and auto report generation facilities, FASTEST is proving to be one of the finest and most cost effective platforms for performance testing. The Database emulator is a first-of-its-kind in the industry and trials are underway to enable it separately as a service on the cloud.

Our Performance Modelling Lab which is a very recent development is focused on modelling the impact of user variability on system performance and on creating performance modelling tools for architects. Going ahead we intend to focus on business process performance modelling, network systems performance modelling, and test result extrapolation. Members of this lab have a number of publications at reputed conferences in this area to their credit. Our endeavour is to grow this lab through recruitment from the performance modelling community.

The coming year looks promising with some of our seed work in Software Robustness and the Universal Message Communication being very well appreciated by customers and these will remain our focus areas for 2010-2011. On the systems performance front, our focus will be on auto tuning and test result extrapolation. Database performance will also continue to be another of our focus areas for this coming year.