Dell Boosts Server Performance For Algo Trading
Dell has introduced a self-installable firmware upgrade to its PowerEdge servers that boosts their CPU performance by 13% to 31%, while also reducing jitter. The Dell Processor Acceleration Technology (DPAT) upgrade has already been tested by firms engaged in algorithmic trading with significant results. Oh, and the upgrade is free. The upgrade consists of a...
Can Both Microwave and Fibre Turn Up The Heat on HFT?
With trading speeds of up to 40% faster, microwave transmission looks set to be an important technology tool for high frequency traders in search of a competitive advantage, but it won’t lead to a wholesale technology change across the industry. There are limitations to microwave and this is why a combination of low latency fibre...
Fixnetix and Asperatus Capital Tap NovaSparks For HFT
Fixnetix and its long-time customer Asperatus Capital have tapped NovaSparks to provide them with ultra-low-latency direct market data via its FPGA-accelerated Matrix appliances. That data is used to fuel HFT strategies. Founded in 2009 in London, Asperatus is an established customer of Fixnetix, which provides it with infrastructure, hosting, co-location and connectivity services to a...
Datacom Panel: Life After HFT For FPGAs
High Frequency Trading, evolving applications and programming advances were key topics at “FPGA Advances in Market Trading” – a panel discussion held in New York City this week, hosted by Datacom Systems. The panel also included representation from Altera, ITRS, NovaSparks and Strike Technologies, and was moderated by Low-Latency.com. Among the issues debated was one...
Cisco, AdvancedIO and MayStreet Accelerate Market Data
Following on from the recent ‘real-life’ benchmarking of its Nexus 3548 switch, Cisco Systems has published a white paper on accelerating market data, working with AdvancedIO Systems and MayStreet. In the white paper – available here – different architectures are considered, including processing market data by software on a server versus performing filtering on an...
STAC Benchmarks IBM’s Hadoop
STAC – aka the Securities Technology Analysis Center – has benchmarked IBM’s proprietary Platform Symphony implementation of Hadoop MapReduce, versus the standard open source offering, to compare their respective performance. On average, IBM’s implementation performed jobs 7.3 times faster than the standard, reducing total processing time by a factor of six. Better known for its...
Q&A: Thomson Reuters’ Rich Brown on Machine Readable News, Social Media and Sentiment
BigDataForFinance.com’s sister community – Low-Latency.com – just conducted an insightful Q&A with Rich Brown, who leads machine readable news programs at Thomson Reuters. It’s a topic that spans both low latency and big data, and you can read it here.
McObject, Dell, Mellanox, Kove Set Record STAC-M3 Benchmarks
McObject with its eXtremeDB Financial Edition database has set record STAC-M3 benchmarks running on a hardware platform provided by Dell, Mellanox and Kove. eXtremeDB is just the second database to be featured in published STAC-M3 benchmarks, the other being Kx Systems’ kdb+. STAC-M3 – as administered and audited along with other benchmarks by the Securities...
Infinigon Group Generating Realtime Trading Signals From Twitter
New York City-based Infinigon Group is emerging from stealth mode and is working with select trading firms to test their software, which provides trading signals by analysing Twitter activity in real time. Infinigon’s web-based platform taps into the 400 million tweets delivered via the Twitter Firehouse, a real-time feed of all tweets, and applies proprietary...
Prescient Ridge Management Tries On Made-to-Measure From Connamara Systems
Managed futures fund Prescient Ridge Management (PRM) is turning to Connamara Systems and its Made-to-Measure trading suite to support its expansion into new markets, using new trading strategies. Made-to-Measure (MtM) bridges build versus buy development approaches by providing pre-built components that can be augmented by proprietary code to form complete trading systems. PRM currently trades...