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.

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As a result of customer demand for Celoxica’s hardware-accelerated market data products on the latest server platforms, the provider of low latency trading solutions has worked in collaboration with Intel to produce a PCI Express implementation of its Accelerator Series, which is now shipping.

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IT integrator Aipex and content networking vendor Solace Systems have formed a partnership to assist Australian financial organisations in improving the speed and throughput of their data distribution networks.

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Tervela, a provider of high‐performance, low‐latency messaging systems, has launcehd an integrated options market solution designed to exceed the challenging demands of the options industry. The offering couples the Tervela Message Network with professional services and high‐performance options processing capabilities to deliver the predictable low-latency, ultra‐high message throughput, resiliency and scale required in today’s volatile, high‐volume trading marketplace.

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Solace Systems, a supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking hardware, has joined the Financial Information Forum (FIF), an organization formed to address technology implementation issues in the financial services industry.

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By Dave Lauer, Senior Systems Engineer, and Rob Ciampa, Vice President, Tervela

In the new era of microsecond latency, is the quickest path between two points a straight line? Traditionally, messaging implementations aim to move information between publishers and subscribers by the most direct means possible, which often becomes the argument against legacy centralised, middleware messaging and queuing systems. Proponents of direct-connect, peer-to-peer messaging systems contend that it is impossible to put an extra hop between two hosts and provide a lower-latency path. This is true, but only in theory.

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Altera Corporation has announced that HPC Platform of Paris, France, has selected two members of the Stratix II FPGA family for use in its ultra-low latency system for market data processing, algorithmic trading and complex financial product valuation acceleration.

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By Bob Van Valzah, Director, Technical Marketing, 29West

Hardware-only vs hybrid vs software-only approaches to handling high data volumes with ultra low latency – Is there a clear winning approach or is the solution dependent on the specific application?

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Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of software-based accelerated computing and low-latency market data solutions for algorithmic trading, has rolled out the OPRA FAST feed handler option for its InRush embedded ticker plant platform.

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Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, is claiming that its 20Gb/s InfiniBand products provide the low-latency and throughput performance demanded by the Exegy Ticker Plant, a hardware-accelerated appliance which processes and enriches market data for the world’s leading co-located trading operations.

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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.

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Celoxica Holdings, a specialist in accelerated market data feed handling, has signed a deal to deploy its accelerated computing solution at NYSE Euronext. Under the terms of the contract, Celoxica’s Market Data Accelerator, will be incorporated into NYSE Euronext’s network infrastructure and will enhance the monitoring of market data feeds, by providing both ultra-high capacity for processing volumes while achieving ultra-low single digit microsecond latency.

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Celoxica, which offers hardware-accelerated market data handlers, has appointed John Oddie to the board as non-executive director and to take on the role of acting chief technology officer. In addition, Jean-Marc Bouhelier, who joined the board as a non-executive director in October 2007 takes on the chairmanship of the company and chief operating officer Antoine Rescourio becomes company secretary.

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Tervela has launched version 3.0 of its messaging solution, which introduces Tervela TPE Persistence Engine – a hardware solution integrated into the Message Network that captures all message traffic without impacting application-level performance.

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By Pete Harris, President Americas and Editor-at-Large, A-Team Group

Getting computers to compute faster and use less power is hitting a sweet spot with firms looking to not only out-run their competitors, but also to cut data centre footprint and power consumption. So who offers what to the market and what should anyone wanting to make gains from hardware acceleration be on the look out for?

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Exegy has included financial futures as part of its Exegy Ticker Plant package, launched a feed handler for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), and has expanded its co-location capabilities to four US trading venues and at London Docklands.

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Azul Systems launched its Vega 3 Series appliances, designed to run, process, and manage Java applications in business critical environments. Compared to the company’s first generation devices, Vega 3 products represent a fivefold improvement in performance, packaged in compact 5U or 14U appliance.

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XtremeData is now shipping the first AMD Socket F (1207) based In-Socket Accelerator. The device is compatible with the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor and incorporates dual Altera high-performance Stratix II FPGAs. The new XD2000F accelerator module targets financial data analytics and data communications system design applications. It plugs into servers via the HyperTransport technology bus at 800MT/s to significantly speed compute-intensive computer processing. The HyperTransport bus offers a high-bandwidth, low latency interface for other processors and memory in dual, quad and octal platforms. Placing the XD2000F in one or more of the CPU sockets gives the In-Socket Accelerator a high-speed link to memory as well as a fast connection to the host processor without requiring board modifications, while providing a simple hardware integration path, the vendor claims.

XtremeData News Release

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Tervela, developer of high performance messaging systems, has named Robert Cramer as CEO, to succeed Barry Thompson, Tervela’s founder, who becomes CTO. Cramer was previously CEO of LiveVault, a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider targeting the IT market. Tervela recently released a hardware accelerated messaging platform designed to give financial institutions the capacity to outpace exponentially increasing market data volumes. In production settings, customers have experienced up to a 1000X improvement in capacity and performance over legacy messaging systems, Tervela says.

Tervela News Release

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Despite its presence at shows like SIFMA earlier in the year, Tervela yesterday officially emerged from stealth mode and showcased its TVA-1000 messaging appliance.
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