METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PARTITIONING DATA IN PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for processing requests in a data processing system. While the principles of the invention are not limited to a particular domain, they are particularly suitable for use in an electronic trading system. By way of example of one aspect of the invention, a method for directing requests to at least one node in a system comprising multiple nodes and a plurality of requests comprises associating a number to each request, assigning at least one number to each node so as to balance a load across the nodes, and sending & request to a node based on the number associated to the request. Various other aspects are disclosed.