Pivotal Taps NYSE for Data Dispatch Middleware
Pivotal – the EMC/VMware analytics spinout – has released Pivotal Data Dispatch (PDD), a platform for discovery of and analytical processing on data stored in disparate repositories. The product was developed at NYSE Euronext for its internal surveillance and regulatory purposes and has been in use there since 2007. According to product documentation, PDD provides...
Low Latency Summit: Low Latency Gives Way to Big Data and Analytics
The pressure to achieve ever lower latency in trading has not eased in the six or so years since low latency became an industry buzz, but it is beginning to ease as the pure need for speed gives way to growing interest in smart analytics and big data. Opening this week’s A-Team Group Low Latency...
BBC Covers Low-Latency and Analytics; Interviews Low-Latency.com and TS-Associates
The BBC dropped by the Low-Latency Summit on Tuesday with a mission to find out more about electronic trading, low latency and analytics. Interviews with Pete Harris, editor of Low-Latency.com, Andrew Delaney, editor-in-chief at A-Team Group, and Henry Young, CEO at TS-Associates, were conducted, and edited into a rather nice entry-level segment. Listen here.
ScaleOut Pushes Hadoop Towards Low-Latency for Real-Time Analytics
OK, so the headline is a tad extreme, but bear with me. Recent developments combining in-memory technologies and Hadoop/MapReduce from ScaleOut Software point to a future where big data analytics and real-time processing, as it’s defined in the financial markets, could meet. ScaleOut has just released its ScaleOut hServer V2, an in-memory data grid, which it claims can boost...
InfoReach Outlines Results of TMS Integration with R Analytics Language
When InfoReach integrated the R programming language into its Trade Management System (TMS), it was responding to one client request, but interest is rising and the company expects more users of the system and its Prelude hosted trading platform to take advantage of its provision of access to R analytical language functions and trading models....
Q&A: McObject’s Steve Graves on Vectors, CPU Cache and Pipelining to Boost Analytics Performance
Trading firms are looking to boost the speed at which they run analytics, in order to provide faster trading signals and more effective risk management. Leveraging vector-based processing, and managing data so that it remains in the CPU cache can help. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to McObject’s CEO Steve Graves for some explanations. Q: You just released...
BittWare’s TeraBox Bulks Up FPGA Processing for Trading Scale and Analytics
FPGA specialist BittWare has introduced TeraBox, an appliance that delivers up to 16 FPGAs, and targeted at high scale trading and analytics applications. TeraBox supports up to eight BittWare S5-PCIe-DS cards, each of which hosts two Altera Stratix V FPGAs, 64 gigabytes of RAM and 16 10gE network ports. Thus, each 5U appliance can scale...
Researchers Harness Supercomputers for Game Changing Financial Markets Analysis
Researchers from a number of U.S. universities, tapping into supercomputing power and optimising code, believe they have made a “game changing” step in the speedy analysis of financial markets, reducing operations from hours or even days, down to minutes. The researchers from the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of San...
MarketPrizm Latest to Offer Tick Data as a Service
Managed connectivity and co-lo specialist MarketPrizm plans to introduce a hosted tick database of global exchange data in Q4 of this year, representing the latest vendor to offer tick data as a service to trading and investment firms looking to leverage it for algorithmic backtesting and quantitative analysis. MarketPrizm’s service – available initially in its...
TS-Associates Details Integration of Correlix/TipOff
Latency management specialist TS-Associates is planning to integrate Correlix, the trade flow analysis tool it acquired in July 2012, and TipOff, the network and data flow monitoring tool it developed in-house since 2006. The integration builds on the company’s experience of the products in the market before the acquisition of Correlix and is planned in two...