NASDAQ+RTJS: 150K tps, 500M tx-per-day

Can't find slides from JavaOne 2007 lecture of Anna Ewing, CIO of the NASDAQ exchange, but here some info about NASDAQ (writed using Real-Time Java Specification (JSR-1)):
- 150K transactions-per-second;
- 500M transactions-per-day.
Here and here.

Challenges and Directions in Java Virtual Machines

Тут презентация с JavaONE-2008 от Dr.Cliff Click and Brian Goetz.
Рассказывают про будущее многопоточности для JVM и приложений.
Впечатление, что предстоит ОЧЕНЬ МНОГО РАБОТЫ и ВСЕ ОЧЕНЬ ЗАПУТАННО.
Вот типичные цитаты:
"We don't know what the Right Answer is yet"
"Alas, there are very few 'victories' here"
"Doesn't have yet a story for true parallelism"