IIT Delhi Alumni Association

From: vikas vishwakarna

ION Trading

ION is the market leader in providing high performance solutions for e-trading. ION technology allows institutions to focus on developing proprietary models and business logic without worrying about integration, performance, security, and data monitoring issues. More than 70 financial institutions in 20 different countries ranging from Top Tier 1 banks to small financial specialists have already chosen ION as a strategic partner for their e-trading activities. With offices in London, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Malta, Sydney, Frankfurt, Pisa, Madrid, Dublin, and New Delhi, ION can support its customers’ needs on a global basis.
For details, please visit our site at www.iontrading.com

Job Profile
1. Understand our existing simulation tools to create market conditions and use them to evaluate MarketView platform performance.
2. Regress performance of existing and new components on different hardware and software platforms.
3. Analyse test results to understand the behaviour of components. This would require good understanding of MarketView components and their interactions.
4. Develop reproducible test beds and benchmark tools. These could be in Tcl, Java, C, C++, or other languages. The tools should be user friendly and would be given to our clients to use.
5. Managing MarketView component configuration settings in different context and environments. This would require good understanding of hardware and software technologies. The role may require developing tools to validate system behaviour (e.g. throughput / latency over socket, process performance, memory usage, CPU usage v/s response time, etc).
6. Profiling of components – the role would require understanding of MarketView architecture and component design. Working knowledge of a profiling tool like Rational Quantify will be a plus.

Job Requirement
We are looking for people, who understand IT

• How software functions on computers
• How operating system scheduler / virtual memory manager / IO handler works
• How network communication happens, and
• How new advancements in computer hardware can be leveraged to develop high performance software
  

And can apply these concepts to,

• Benchmarking our products using existing and new driver routines
• Analyzing product performance
• Develop reproducible test suits and benchmark tools
• Develop test beds to validate methods of achieving optimal software performance
  

If the above sounds challenging and exiting – we are talking business.

Skills Required
We are looking for people with,
1. Excellent analytical thinking.
2. Testing automation experience.
3. Ability to program, both for analysis (scripting languages like Tcl / Awk / Excel) and driver routines (Tcl / Java / C / C++).
4. Good understanding of IT (software engineering skills). People who can understand test results and relate them to the operating environments.
5. The candidate should hold an engineering degree in Computer Science from a premier institute.
6. Around 2 – 3 years relevant industrial experience is preferred. Though a fresher with a good grip on software engineering concepts would also be considered.

Thanks,
Rajiv Kanvar
High Performance Group
Mobile: +91-98-100-56765
Email: r.kanvar@iontrading.com

Please read the following message & contribute as you see fit.

Thanks
IITD AA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anadi Misra" <anadi_misra@yahoo.com>

Dear Friends,

You may be aware of the sudden demise of our friend> Abhinav Dhupar (B. Tech, Civil Engineering, 2000-2004, Aravali Hostel) in a road accident on Aug 16, 2006.

To keep Abhinav's memories alive, we are in the process of initiating a scholarship / award in his name. Right now we are in the process of setting up a corpus fund as per the Institute rules. The fund will be managed by the institute. The guidelines and selection criteria regarding the scholarship/award will be established by us pending the final approval. The scholarship/award will be funded by the interest earned on the fund every year. The management committee which will decide on the selection of the awardee(s) will have Abhinav's parents or one of his batch mates. Other likely members are HOD, 1-2 faculty members of Civil Engineering Department, IIT Delhi.

The minimum amount required for setting up the scholarship is Rs 2.5 lakhs and for award it is Rs.1 lakh. We will decide on whether to go for scholarship/award after getting an estimate of all contributions. Proper accounts shall be maintained and an annual statement of income and expenditure relating to the award will be submitted to the management committee every year which shall be circulated among the donors. We have not set up any lower or upper limit for the contributions. So if you are willing to contribute to the effort, email the amount you want to contribute to dhupar.grant@yahoo.co.in and we will get in touch with you. Kindly let us know ASAP so that we may proceed with other formalities.

Regards,
The Class of 2004,
Civil Engineering
IIT Delhi

Keeping in view the success of 'Unique Kite Flying Event', organized by IIT Delhi Alumni Association last year,
a similar Kite Flying program is being organized on 27th August 2006 at Cricket Ground, IIT Delhi.

The main attraction of the event will be the demonstration by Bhai Mian Jammaluddin,
a Delhi-based Kite Flying expert, who has gained expertise in flying more than 100 kites on a single string.

Games like Pithoo and Khokho will also be organized.

There will be the mehndiwala.

As usual, like all the get togethers, traditional snacks like chat papri, gol guppas, tikki etc. will be in plenty.

IITDAA cordially invites you along with your family to a UNIQUE KITE FLYING EVENT on August 27, 2006 (3:30 pm to 7:30 pm)

Venue: Cricket Ground, IIT Delhi.


Only a token amount of Rs.50/- per alumni family will be charged. The guests will be
charged Rs.100/- per person.


Please take out some of your precious time and attend the event.

An early confirmation by mail or phone will be much appreciated.

IIT Delhi Alumni Association Nalanda House, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016 Tel: 2686 8523/2659 7178/2659 6953, Fax: 2651 4177 E-mail:iitdaa@gmail.com or Blog: http://iitdalumni.in/,
Website:http://www.iitdalumni.com

Hi,

We are planning on having 2 musical programs for IITDAA this year.

The first one will be SUGAM 06, scheduled for sat 18th nov, in the sem hall.

This will have performances by invited alumni. The content will be-
Geet, gazal, bhajan; folk ; classical; semi-classical; regional- rabindra sangeet/nazrulgeeti, others;

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The other program will be NOSTALGIA 07, on sat 20th january. (to be confirmed).

This will have popular music with an inclusive participation.

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IN ADDITION, IF YOU WISH TO ORGANISE AN ALUMNI MUSICAL EVENING IN YOUR CITY, KINDLY

LET US KNOW. We will provide full support. Interested alumni in the following cities may contact us:

Chandigarh, Jaipur, Bangalore.. or any other.

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Do let us know how this sounds to you.

We look forward to your inputs and suggestions.

Govt to drop RTI amendment Act
CNN-IBN

Posted Saturday , August 19, 2006 at 16:25
Updated Saturday , August 19, 2006 at 18:51

New Delhi: The Government has dropped its plan to amend the Right To Information Act (RTI) which would have barred public access to file notings, sources have told CNN-IBN.
Sources said there are strong indications that the Government will not push for the amendment and this means file notings, an important part of the Government's decision making process, will be made available to the public.
The amendment proposed that excluding social issues, file notings on all other matters should not be available for public scrutiny.
Social activists, former bureaucrats and the Left parties opposed this, saying the curb would dilute the Act.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Suresh Pachauri said on Saturday that based on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decision, the amendment will not be introduced in the monsoon session which concludes on August 25.
He said there have been considerable apprehensions about the proposed amendment. "Congress President Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister have received several representations in this regard and it has been decided that the issue should be first discussed with all stakeholders," he said.
In view of this, Pachauri said the Bill to amend the Act was not likely to be introduced now.
Social activist Anna Hazare called off his 11-day-old hunger strike against the amendment in Alandi, Maharashtra, after Minister of State in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan told him about the Government's decision.

IIT Delhi Alumni Association

Cordially invites you along with your family to a

UNIQUE KITE FLYING EVENT

on August 27, 2006 (3:30 pm to 7:30 pm)

Venue: Cricket Ground, IIT Delhi.

Bhai Mian Jammaluddin, a Delhi-based kite-flying expert whose forte is flying a good number of kites on a single string, will be flying 100 or more kites on a single string. Bhai Mian and his family has been flying such kites at various occasions and it is a regular feature at Delhi Haat.
Apart from this, Bhai Mian and his staff will impart training for kite making and flying a kite.
IIT Delhi Alumni Association will provide the necessary kites and manjha (thread) for hands on experience. Of course you are most welcome to bring your own stuff too.

Moreover, games like Pithoo and Kho-Kho have also been arranged.

Special attraction for ladies - Mehndi wala be available.

Traditional snacks like chat papri, gol guppas, tikki etc. will be in plenty.
Only a token amount of Rs.50/- per alumni family will be charged. The guests, if any, will be charged Rs.100/- per person.
Please take out some of your precious time and attend the event.
An early confirmation by mail or phone will be much appreciated.
Suggestions are most welcome.
Looking forward to your active participation.

IIT Delhi Alumni Association Nalanda House, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016 Tel: 2686 8523/2659 7178/2659 6953, Fax: 2651 4177 E-mail:iitdaa@gmail.com or office@iitdalumni.com,
Website:http://www.iitdalumni.com

Hi Everyone

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Somnath
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IIT Delhi Alumni Association