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[PLUG] [plug-announce] Mon, Oct 15, 2007: GT.M Infrastructure and Development Methodology (PLUG West@Unisys in Malvern)
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The next PLUG West meeting will be held on Monday,
October 15 at Unisys in Malvern. K. S. Bhaskar will give a
presentation on a large-scale cross-platform development
environment, centering around his team's experiences with
the GT.M database application. See the end of this message
for a full abstract of the talk.
http://www.fis-gtm.com
Interested in Linux, BSD, and Free Software? Whether you're
already an enthusiast or want to learn more, come and join
us! PLUG meetings are open to everyone, and anyone who is
curious is invited to attend.
The meeting will be at the Unisys offices in Malvern PA:
Unisys Corporation
2476 Swedesford Road
Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355
There are two buildings at this site; the meeting will be held in
main building (the bigger of the two). Please enter through the
main entrance at the front of the building and check in at the
security desk. For driving directions, please visit
http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/unisys.html
Unisys has requested that we provide the name of as many attendees
as possible prior to the event, to expedite entering the building.
An RSVP is not required, but if you plan to attend it would be
appreciated if you would drop an email to rsvp@phillylinux.org.
The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm and will last until around
9:00 pm. The meeting will begin with an open Question and Answer
session, with the main presentation beginning at 8:00 pm.
For more information about PLUG, please visit our website at
http://www.phillylinux.org
Following the meeting, some attendees head over to the nearby
Flanigan's Boathouse to continue the discussion over beer.
Directions to the Boathouse from Unisys can be found at
http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/boathouse.html
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ABSTRACT
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GT.M (http://fis-gtm.com) is a transaction processing
database application development platform that consists of a
database engine, a compiler for the M scripting language, and
utility programs. GT.M powers the largest real-time core
processing system that we know of that is in daily production
use at any bank anywhere in the world. [A core processing
system is perhaps the most important single application for a
bank.] GT.M is also increasingly used in health care. On
some platforms - e.g., x86 Linux - GT.M is available under
GPL (at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm). On
other platforms - e.g., SPARC Solaris, pSeries AIX, Itanium
HP-UX and Linux - the same GT.M is more traditionally licensed.
Even more important than extreme scalability is the need for
robustness and continuity of business, since the GT.M database
is the legal system of record for tens of millions of bank
balances worldwide, and since if GT.M is down, the bank is not
in business. The bar for robustness and scalability always
goes up and never goes down. After robustness and scalability,
the third design consideration for GT.M is portability: an M
program must exhibit the same functional behavior on any any
platform. Rounding out the requirements, is the fact that we
are under perpetual pressure to do more with fewer resources.
The GT.M development team has an extensive infrastructure,
consisting not only a hardware infrastructure of machines but
also a software infrastructure with a heavy investment in
automation for building and testing. Every weekend, the
servers are busy running the automated regression test suite
against the current code base on all supported platforms.
In this third presentation on GT.M, K.S. Bhaskar will discuss
the GT.M development infrastructure, as well as the development
methodology, which is based on agile methods and test-driven
software development. Members of the GT.M team will be on
hand to keep him honest and to help answer questions.
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