Stac has completed tests to find the maximum Point-to-Point Server (P2PS) Producer 50/50 throughput on a single server using Intel Dunnington processors over a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch.
Sun Microsystems and GigiSpaces have set a new benchmark performance result that address the scalability needs of capital market customers at High Performance on Wall Street this week. In performance tests, the energy-efficient Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server processed 1.3 million transactions per second with 60 concurrent clients to achieve an improvement of up to 40 per cent over competing multi-threaded platforms. The average throughput per client thread was sustained at about 21,000 transactions per second.
Two weeks ago, Stac released a Stac Report on order book consolidation using the Aleri Streaming Platform running on a single quad-socket server using Solaris 10 and the Intel Xeon 7350 (Tigerton) processor. This server handled 180,000 order book updates per second with a mean latency of approximately 1.5 milliseconds and 99th percentile latency of approximately 3 milliseconds. On September 15, 2008, Intel released the Xeon 7400 series of 6-core processors, codenamed “Dunnington.” Intel therefore asked Stac to re-run the exact same Aleri configuration after upgrading the processors in the server.
The Securities Technology Analysis Center’s (Stac) Benchmarking Council – a group of 40 leading trading firms formed a year ago – has approved the Stac-M1 Benchmark specifications, the first industry-standard benchmark for trading technology.
Stac has released benchmark results for the InRush embedded ticker plant from Redline Trading Solutions. In addition to the InRush software, the stack under test consisted of five HP DL380 servers that consumed directly from the network that was delivering the OPRA UDP multicast stream from the playback mechanism (Stac Hi-Fi). Each server hosted a feed handler that ran on a board containing a Cell Broadband Engine processor, along with a test client that ran on the server’s native Intel processor via Linux. The Cell board contained its own memory and network interfaces.
Stac has released results from tests of an order book aggregation solution built on the Aleri Streaming Platform. The Aleri solution consumed streaming, full-depth order data for two US equity exchanges via the Reuters Market Data System version 6 and aggregated the orders by price to produce a single, consolidated order book stream as the output. The consumer of the consolidated output stream was a single instance of a test client that Stac wrote to the Aleri API and Aleri helped to optimise. The consumer subscribed to one quarter of the entire set of consolidated order books.
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (Stac) today announced that AMD has become an official Innovation Sponsor for the Manhattan-based Stac Lab. AMD is also a member of the Stac Benchmark Council.
Sun Microsystems has announced new benchmark performance results for Thomson Reuters market data platform. The new benchmark demonstrates that running the Reuters Market Data System 6.0.3 (RMDS) platform on Intel-based Sun technology breaks the million-messages-per second barrier, as well as offering the lowest available network latency on a 1Gb Ethernet.
Stac has just posted test results of guaranteed messaging workloads on the Solace 3230 Content Router from Solace Systems. The tests included Linux-based clients connected to the router via switched gigabit Ethernet. The tests involved heavy duty message rates in client configurations that are relevant to trading scenarios like order execution. In addition, one test case simulated a significant failure event (loss of connectivity to over a third of the clients, followed by recovery) and studied the impact this had on the other clients.
Aleri has joined the Securities Technology Analysis Center (Stac) Benchmark Council and has become the first event-processing platform (EPP) vendor to make its products available to Stac Lab for end user evaluations.
Stac has released more test results on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE), using technology from two vendors: Blade Network Technologies (BNT) and Chelsio Communications. BNT offers a 10GigE switch module for the IBM BladeCenter, and Chelsio provides 10 GigE NICs. Stac tested the technology under market data workloads because the vendors believed that the combination of the high-speed BNT switch with Chelsio’s TCP Offload Engine (TOE) would improve both latency and throughput in market data environments. The tests revealed the lowest mean latency and the lowest standard deviation of latency ever reported with RMDS.
Securities Technology Analysis Center (Stac) has released its first test results involving 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) technology. Teak Technologies provides 10GigE switches and NICs under the product name AZ-10GE. One of the distinguishing features that Teak claims is “Acceleration Zone Ethernet”, a hardware-based collection of algorithms that detect, diagnose and rectify networking artifacts that hinder application performance and prevent a firm from achieving the full potential of 10GigE.
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It’s been a while I know, but this blogging business just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. My thanks then to “Uncle” Tom Groenfeldt for alerting me on his blog to the recent departure from Sun Microsystems of Larry Scott, where he was vice president for financial services. Larry is going somewhere, though he’s not telling, at least not yet. But his departure jogged my memory to some offline conversations I’ve been having of late, not least during the Linux on Wall Street conference that I chaired the other week.
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