Application Design

Question

Hi,

We have recently started working on the high level design of a new trading platform that is going to process 100s transactions per second.

As a part of the design we are intending to develop a client desktop application that is going to make use of a number of windows services to process data entered by traders. The services will obviously work as multi threaded applications.

From experience I know of the issues associated with multi threading such as deadlock, race conditions etc.... but do not have much familiarity with dealing with solutions that cater for 100s transactions per second.

Could somebody indicate what additional issues we should consider when so many transactions are being processed?

Thanks