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Stac’s Vault Gaining Momentum; IBM an Early User, Benchmark Supporter

Introduced late last year as a private repository for members of its Benchmark Council, the Securities Technology Analysis Center (Stac) has found its Vault facility is proving useful to members, especially for the filing of unaudited reports that are not quite ready for fully public consumption. IBM is one vendor that is embracing the facility, which is just one of the initiatives that Stac is focusing on for 2010.

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11 Feb 2010

Cinnober Latency Paper Outlines Issues of Measurement

This month’s release by Cinnober Financial Technology of a white paper discussing the issues relating to latency measurement progresses the ongoing debate on measurement in the face of growing marketplace acceptance of low-latency liquidity access. For Cinnober, the paper is an attempt to shed light on its own methodology for measuring the latency of its exchange trading platform in the hopes of increasing transparency around what it sees as an oblique subject.

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20 Nov 2009

NYSE Technologies Demonstrates RDMA vs TCP at SC09 Show

At this year’s Supercomputing show - SC09 - which got underway today in Portland, Oregon, NYSE Technologies is teaming up with Intel and Voltaire to demonstrate the latency and throughput of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) compared to TCP-based networking, for its Data Fabric messaging middleware

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16 Nov 2009

Solace Adds 10 GigE Networking; Benchmarks with Arista, NetEffect

Hardware-accelerated messsaging specialist Solace Systems has introduced the Solace 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) Network Acceleration Blade for use within Solace Content Routers. This blade is targeted at high data rate/low latency applications.

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21 Apr 2009

QuantHouse Leverages Intel Xeon 5570 for 3.3 Million MPS

Algo-trading technology specialist QuantHouse has released a benchmark for its feed handler, which can now process 3.3 million messages per second, using Intel’s new Xeon 5570 2.93 GHz microprocessor. The benchmark was performed at Intel’s fasterLAB.

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01 Apr 2009

Stac Benchmarks Optimised RMDS Configuration; Boosts Updates to 19.1 million/second

Referencing a benchmark it conducted in September 2008 for the Thomson Reuters Market Data System (RMDS), Stac has released an update after applying certain optimisations.

For the update, Stac added two more 10GigE ports (bringing the total to four) to reduce contention among the cores competing to consume and transmit data, and moved the burden of TCP processing to the NIC, using Chelsio’s TCP Offload Engine (TOE). Stac then re-ran the Producer 50/50 tests on an equivalent 24-core Intel 7450-based server from IBM running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES) 10.

In this optimised configuration, RMDS was able to output 19.1 million updates per second.

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07 Jan 2009

Stac Releases Second Chelsio/RMDS Benchmark Report

Stac has released a second report on the performance of the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) using Chelsio 10GigE NICs that perform TCP offload. This time, the platform was Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time running on HP c-Class blades.

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16 Dec 2008

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FIF CAPACITY STATISTICS FOR February 2010: NEW RECORD PEAKS for SIAC CTS, NASDAQ TotalView Aggregated, DAP, ITTO, BX TotalView ITCH 3.1 and UTDF, BATS Europe PITCH.

OptionsCity Introduces a New Version of Metro

Equinix Opens Second Data Centre in Geneva

Atrium Network and Visual Trader Connect Their Networks to Offer Connectivity to the Spanish Exchange

ACTIV Financial Reports Strong Growth in European Market

TS-Associates and Solace Systems to Enable Real-Time Measurement of Latency in Solace-Based Financial Systems

AboveNet Launches Low Latency TransAtlantic Connectivity

Cinnober Radically Reduces Latency with TRADExpress Trading System Version 8

RTS Realtime Systems Introduces First Phase of Technology Initiative to Further Reduce Latency

BATS Europe Selects QUANTHOUSE Low Latency Market Data Solutions for its European Marketplace...

Selerity Launches Ultra-Low-Latency, Machine-Readable Event Data Platform

Options IT Adds Industry Veteran Richard Burke to its U.S. Sales Team

29West and Exegy Announce Next Generation Market Data Distribution Solution

SunGard Integrates Algorithmic Trading Solutions with QuantHouse Market Data Feeds

euNetworks Reports Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2009 Results

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