Lab49 to Present Multiple Sessions at Microsoft Enterprise Developer & Industry Solutions Conference 2009

Posted April 28th, 2009 by rhamilton

New York, NY, April 28, 2009 - Lab49, Inc a technology consulting firm that builds advanced applications for the financial services industry, today announced that it is a key sponsor of the "Microsoft Enterprise Developer & Industry Solutions Conference 2009"on May 5-6, New York. Lab49 will be attending the Architect's breakfast and presenting at a number of key sessions on current topics on the Financial Services track. Conference details and registration can be found here: http://entdevcon.istreamplanet.com/default.asp.

Overcome Scalability Limits in High-Performance Computing Using New Distributed Cache Products with Integrated Grid Computing
Wednesday 6th May, 9:00-10:15am, Financial Services Session
William L. Bain, CEO, ScaleOut Software
Marc Jacobs, Director, Lab49

High-performance computing is a story of eliminating bottlenecks - circumventing the limitations of a single machine, managing network usage, preventing oversubscription to scarce resources. Distributed caches have played a major role in this story by providing an efficient, convenient platform for load-balancing objects and data across multiple machines and eliminating fan-in on single-source file systems and databases. However, even as high-performance computing applications have leveraged distributed caching, scalability limits due to increased data motion have surfaced. Essentially, the cost of moving the data to the compute nodes where it can be processed is becoming too expensive. In this session, Lab49 will look at the emerging capabilities of distributed caches to function as intelligent grid computing solutions that can schedule work on nodes where objects and data are located, reducing data motion and improving performance. Results from a recent performance whitepaper, co-authored by ScaleOut Software and Lab49, will also demonstrate the benefits of applying ScaleOut Software's StateServer Grid Computing Edition to a custom backtesting platform for automated equities trading strategies in computational finance. The whitepaper can be found at: http://www.lab49.com/insidethelab/articles

Agile Development using Low-Fidelity Prototypes, Expression Blend and SketchFlow: A Case Study
Wednesday 6th May, 10:30-11:45am, Financial Services Session
Marc Jacobs, Director, Lab49

SketchFlow is one of the biggest new Microsoft technology developments revealed recently to the public, aimed at rapid, inexpensive prototyping of user experiences. SketchFlow will allow designers and developers to quickly mock up screens and workflows, and to exchange feedback and notes between designers, developers and customers. In this session, Lab49 and Citi will demonstrate how, by starting with low-fidelity mockups and alternating between exploration of new ideas and convergence to more refined designs, Lab49 was able to develop a totally innovative new user experience. Lab49 will also show how using SketchFlow, future versions of Microsoft Expression Blend will bring a whole new level of sophistication and ease to the process of designing new user experiences.

Patterns and practices: composite development for WPF and Silverlight using Composite Application Guidance (a.k.a. Prism 2.0)
Wednesday 6th May, 2:15-3:30pm, Financial Services Session
Daniel Simon, Senior Consultant, Lab49

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, and the .NET platform allow development of client applications with amazing richness. But the more power that an application requires, the harder it can be for teams to coordinate their efforts in delivering different product features.

The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (also known as Prism 2.0) provides patterns, libraries and tools to enable collaborative development best practices among teams. Using Prism, teams can develop individual, well-defined visual or functional components that seamlessly integrate into the overall application. Lab49 will discuss and demonstrate some different features of Prism, including:

  • Using the Inversion-of-Control (IoC) pattern with the Unity dependency injection container
  • Getting started by bootstrapping a new composite application with infrastructure and shell
  • Defining your application's public contracts in an infrastructure assembly
  • Dividing application functionality and presentation into dynamically loaded modules
  • Loosely coupled UI composition with region management
  • Loosely coupled communication across application features using composite event aggregation
  • Using the power of the WPF/Silverlight binding engine, the M-V-VM pattern, and Commands to declaratively (and with testability) define your presentation logic
  • Multi-targeting applications for both the desktop (WPF) and the browser (Silverlight) using the Project Linker tool


WHEN:

Tuesday 5 May and Wednesday 6 May, 2009

WHERE:

Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York New York 10036

WHO:

Marc Jacobs, Director, Lab49. Marc is responsible for the successful delivery of client projects in the New York area as well as shaping Lab49's technology leadership message. Marc is also an expert in high performance computing which features as a frequent topic in his blog http://marcja.wordpress.com.

Daniel Simon, Senior Consultant, Lab49. Daniel is responsible for technical design and development on key client projects with a specific expertise in .NET/WPF and HPC. Daniel recently wrote "Concurrency: Take Control or Fail" in Waters Magazine in which he discusses how new trends in hardware demand the adoption of parallel programming throughout the financial enterprise, and why firms need to start getting up to speed now, or risk falling behind. The article can be read at http://www.lab49.com/insidethelab/articles.

Ross Hamilton, Director, Lab49. Ross is responsible for overseeing and managing the successful delivery of client and partner projects and providing guidance to client and Lab49 project teams alike. Ross is also responsible for the management of technology partnerships and Lab49's marketing program. In Ross's blog http://newyorkscot.wordpress.com/, he covers a wide array of topics that are relevant to client projects.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Lab49 executives are available for media briefings at the event. Please contact Sheryl Lee, Amy Kester or Tinne Teugels for more information or to schedule a meeting:

* Amy Kester at 917 320 6451 / amy.kester@metia.com

* Sheryl Lee at 917 320 6462 / sheryl.lee@metia.com

* Tinne Teugels at 917 320 6458 / tinne@metia.com

ABOUT:
Founded in 2002, with offices in New York and London, Lab49 is a technology consulting firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry. Lab49 serves leading global investments banks, hedge funds and mortgage institutions and has completed custom software engagements in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, portfolio management, and real-time risk information delivery systems. Visit http://www.lab49.com/ and http://blog.lab49.com/.