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.

RainMaker Trading LLC, a provider of systematic trading solutions, has chosen 29West Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise (UME) to power its order routing and market data dissemination systems. RainMaker’s order routing and market data dissemination systems are built on top of 29West’s UME platform, allowing for reliable sub-millisecond delivery of information to all system components. UME provides a stable framework messaging layer that allows RainMaker to focus on expanding and enhancing its systems.

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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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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

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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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The financial markets haven’t seen anything like the last couple of months. But what does the shakeup mean for the world of low latency and the vendors servicing it? Low-Latency.com talked with Realtime Innovations‘ Director of Financial Services Strategy and Product Management Henry Sun to find out where the action is now.

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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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Capital markets consultancy NET2S has identified firewalls and applications as the new ‘latency culprits’ in a study examining end-to-end trading latency, finding that they collectively contribute 85% of overall latency. And, having assessed tools to measure latency, NET2S approached SeaNet Technologies to form a partnership to offer clients a comprehensive and accurate breakdown of latency across their market data and trading flows.

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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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Trading Systems Associates, Voltaire and Accolade Technology have announced TipOff - Wombat Data Fabric Edition, a new variant of TS-Associates’ middleware monitoring product, incorporating software developed by Voltaire and hardware developed by Accolade.

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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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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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Real-time middleware specialist Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is opening a Wall Street office as a base for a significantly expanded presence in New York City , as well as allowing key personnel to be located closer to customers using RTI’s ultra low-latency messaging technology in trading applications. It has also made three key hires.

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IBM has launched Websphere MQ Low Latency Messaging, designed to deliver high-volume, low-latency reliable multicast and unicast messaging to help address rapidly increasing data volumes within the financial markets and other industries with similar requirements.

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29West, a low-latency messaging solutions provider, has expanded its New York operations, with new hires Michael Guse, director of software engineering, and Matt Saxe, director of East Coast sales.

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A new study by tech consultancy NET2S has found that the vast majority of trading latency is generated by a bank’s own applications and firewalls rather than networks. Applications and firewalls are responsible for 85% of total system latency, according to the NET2S study, which is based on real-world tests conducted in the trading environments of top-tier investment banks in London.

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Think Trade LLC has selected PrismTech’s OpenSplice DDS suite as the foundation for real-time business intelligence in its next generation Automated Trading System. OpenSplice is a next-generation messaging solution that provides ubiquitous and low-latency access to data, as well as supporting sophisticated relational data modeling, data filtering, and event-processing, whilst ensuring high availability and stability under overload conditions.

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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.

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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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