Sun Microsystems is running a “Trading Applications Developer Workshop” on Thursday, November 20th, at its City of London customer briefing centre. The workshop - with an emphasis on latency - runs from 9am to Noon, followed by lunch, and is free to qualified registrants. Click here to register. Attendance is limited so register today.

Low-Latency.com spoke with Ian Pearl, Global Lead - Low Latency Trading & Market Data at Sun, to find out more about the workshop and what it will cover.

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Low latency and HPC go together like hand and glove. What’s the point of delivering data with low latency to applications if they aren’t going to process it at maximum speed? No surprise, then, that the High Performance on Wall Street event taking place on Monday, September 22nd will have a strong low latency focus.

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A session focusing on “Low Latency in Financial Services” will open The 451 Group’s Enterprise Computing Strategies conference in London, on June 5th.

Other sessions will explore security and virtualization. Attendance is free for qualified applicants. For a full agenda and registration, see http://ecssummit.com/eu/2008/.

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) recently held a seminar ‘Straight Talk About Low-Latency, The Value of a Millisecond’ which highlighted the relationship between the technical minutiae of low latency systems and the business issues related to electronic trading.

Low-Latency.com caught up with John Akbari, Director of Financial Market Business Development at RTI, to find out some more about what was discussed, and to shed more light on the technicalities.

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Low latency is all the rage, but what does it really mean?

• What opportunities are you losing if you don’t have it?
• What new risks are introduced if you do?
• How do you best get it?

Join RTI and Larry Tabb of TABB Group to review the findings of the most comprehensive research yet conducted into the business implications of low latency. Everyone who attends the seminar will receive a complimentary copy of the forthcoming TABB Group report on low latency.

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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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InfiniBand specialist Mellanox is hosting a series of seminars entitled “Accelerating the New Global Trading Markets” in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore in early December. They will focus on today’s financial applications and the latest technology for accelerating performance of trade execution and bandwidth intensive financial applications.
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Intel is bringing its fasterFS event series to New York City, with the running of fasterSTREET on the evening of November 14th. The event will discuss how applications and infrastructure come together to create the fastest solutions on the street. Attendees will secure an understanding of the changes in the trading lifecycle now that StatArb funds are driving the latency debate and DMA services are becoming a crucial competitive advantage for sell side and dark pools.
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A panel session hosted last week by Interactive Data Corp. on Reg NMS and its impact on market data volumes was notable for the spirited discussion among the panelists, covering subjects including projected versus actual data volumes, market structure changes and the impact of technology advances of data volumes. Moderated by IDC’s Mark Hepsworth, the panel comprised: Tom Price from TowerGroup, BT Radianz’s Chris Church, Steve Listhaus of Wachovia and Vijay Kedia of Flextrade Systems.

Listen to the session here

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If you’ve been in the industry as long as I’ve been here, then you too probably are aware that many new hot concepts have a familiar, and dated, ring to them. I was at a WFIC session on direct feeds last week when a panelist from JP Morgan Chase commented that direct feeds caused him “the most pain, sometimes for seemingly little gain.” That took me back …
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It’s not just update rates themselves, but the pace at which the low latency marketplace is changing and direct datafeeds are being updated that’s creating a big challenge for users, according to pundits on the “Traffic & Latency: The More Things Change …” panel here at WFIC today.
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I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for a little while. It’s been the silly season and it seemed a good time to take a break. But with my annual Pimm’s party, Labor Day and the Office 2.0 conference behind me, I reckoned it was time to start writing again.
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Exegy will be previewing its Exegy Ticker Plant 2.0 at Monday’s High Performance on Wall Street show. New functionality includes hardware acceleration applied to level II data, which allows fast analysis of order books and market depth, access to North American and European exchange data an add-on framework that allows customizable analytics, including for arbitrage.
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Intel, Sun Microsystems, Reuters and Cisco Systems are leveraging Monday’s High Performance on Wall Street event to announce the results of tests on a high performance solution to accelerate financial services applications. Conducted by Sun, the tests included a Reuters application running on Intel, Sun, Reuters and Cisco technology, along with new Cisco high-performance software.

Visit www.highperformanceonwallstreet.com for more information and to register.

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The 2007 edition of High Performance on Wall Street takes place on Monday, September 17th at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC - and it’s focus for this year is firmly on low latency.
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I’m referring to last week’s SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibit in NYC. True, the new name (the result of the SIA’s merger with the Bond Association) was a bit of a put off - many people suggested that SIFMA sounded like some horrible strain of bird flu - but otherwise it’s been the best SIA (sic) Show I’ve been to in years.

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A horde of complex event processing/event steam processing vendors will be at SIFMA. These companies hit our radar and most, if not all, have announcements to make at the show.
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At next week’s SIFMA show, middleware vendors come in a number of flavors. Here are the key players to check out.
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Datafeed suppliers and vendors of feed-handling infrastructure will be aplenty at next week’s SIFMA show.
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The annual SIFMA (formerly SIA, now merged with the Bond Association) Technology Management Conference and Exhibit kicks off next Tuesday, and a number of companies from the down and dirty world of hardware - chip manufacturers, networking technology vendors etc. - will be on show. Here’s who to visit …
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