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MarketDataPeaks Makes New High in Busy Market FREE - A-Team Wire
29West IPC Transport Pushes Latency to Sub-Microsecond
Messaging specialist 29West has published results of performance tests on its IPC (Inter-Process Communication) transport, which push the latency of message transfer to well below one microsecond.
Algo Technologies Sets Out Store Claiming Fastest Matching Engine
Algo Technologies has launched its core matching engine, claiming it’s the fastest available on the market, and formed a joint venture company dedicated to low latency connectivity just a month after its inception.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Access the full report here.
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.
Stac Publishes Report on RMDS on Chelsio
Stac has released a follow-up report on the performance of the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) using Chelsio 10GigE NICs and Red Hat Enterprise MRG Realtime. In a previous Stac report, a solution consisting of Chelsio 10GigE NICs, Red Hat MRG, Intel processors, IBM HS21 Bladecenter servers and Blade Network Technology (BNT) switches demonstrated record low latency and very high throughput with RMDS.
Stac Benchmarks Novell Suse at Highest Throughput on RMDS
Securities Technology Analysis Center (Stac) has benchmarked Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time at the lowest mean and maximum latencies ever recorded at high rates with the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS), as well as the highest RMDS throughput for a two-socket server. Novell says it was able to achieve simultaneously high throughput rates and extremely low latencies because of close collaboration with its technology partners – HP, Intel and Voltaire.
Solace, Arista, Intel’s NetEffect Demonstrate Hardware-Based Messaging Solution
Solace Systems, which provides hardware-based messaging middleware, has collaborated with Arista Networks and Intel’s NetEffect unit to demonstrate an ultra low-latency data delivery solution using hardware platforms.
Stac Releases Results for Second Test of Real-Time Linux Technology
Stac has released its second report involving real time Linux technology and a market data workload. In this evaluation, Novell, HP and Intel asked Stac to measure the performance of the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) 6.x with the following other stack layers:
• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time 10 SP2 update 3 (SLERT)
• HP BladeSystem with HP BL460c Blades
• Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5450 (”Harpertown”) CPUs
• HP 4X DDR InfiniBand HCA
• HP DDR InfiniBand switch
• Voltaire Messaging Accelerator (VMA) InfiniBand Software
Stac Releases Test Results for Real Time Linux Technology
Stac has released test results involving real time Linux technology and a market data workload. Red Hat, IBM and Intel asked Stac to measure the performance of the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) 6.x with the following other stack layers:
• Red Hat Enterprise Real Time MRG
• IBM BladeCenter with HS21 XM Blades
• Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5450 (”Harpertown”) CPUs
• 10 Gigabit NICs from Chelsio Communications, without client-side acceleration enabled
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch from Blade Network Technologies
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