Q&A: Dave Malik’s Cisco Nexus 3548 Deep Dive
Following up on the big Cisco news the other week of the launch of its Nexus 3548 switch, featuring latency of less than 190 nanoseconds, IntelligentTradingTechnology.com wanted to find out more about the new offering, its capabilities and the technology behind it. Dave Malik, senior director within its financial services group, provided some answers. Q:...
Verdande, Nastel Team for CBR-Based Operational Analytics
Verdande Technology and Nastel Technologies have teamed up to combine their case-based reasoning (CBR) and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, respectively, to provide financial services organisations with predictive analytics to reduce system outages and to remain compliant with regulatory reporting. CBR allows for an adaptive “human” approach to problem solving that analyses data patterns in...
Kx Releases kdb+ 3.0 To Ease Management of Big Data
Kx Systems has released version 3.0 of its kdb+ database, improving performance and simplifying the storage of massive data sets, such as long histories of time series data. The optimised code in 3.0 utilises Intel “Sandy Bridge” processor Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instructions to boost performance of calculations. As for...
The Rise of Cloud Computing Within the Financial Trading Sector
Mainstream cloud adoption across the financial vertical initially started with buy- and sell-side trading firms needing an accessible platform scalable enough to store their immense volumes of market data and run risk analyses or other algorithms. The cloud was chosen as the logical solution, satisfying the security, compliance and low latency requirements associated with such...
Leveraging Algo Boost ASIC, Cisco Introduces Sub-200 Nanosecond Switch
Cisco Systems is today introducing its Nexus 3548 network switch, incorporating proprietary Algorithm Boost (aka Algo Boost) ASIC chip technology, which pushes port-to-port cut through latency down to 190 nanoseconds for typical financial trading applications. Moreover, latency of 50 nanoseconds is possible for straightforward one-to-many market data distribution. Cisco execs say the switch is “orderable”...
Another Take On Market Data Latency Disparities
There’s been a fair amount of media coverage resulting from the recent $5 million fine levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission on NYSE Euronext, caused in the most part by the exchange’s failure to provide data to third parties as quickly as it did to its own data feeds. Now, not to make light...
Actian Approaches One Year; Delivers Vectorwise Appliance With Lenovo
Just ahead of the first anniversary of its corporate makeover, Actian has introduced its Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance, in partnership with Lenovo. Initial models – based on Lenovo’s ThinkServer RD360 server – come in 100 gigabyte and one terabyte flavours. Formerly known as Ingres, Actian continues to develop and sell the open source transactional database...
AMD SeaMicro Server Offers 512 Cores and 5PB Storage; And Intel Chips!
AMD’s just announced SeaMicro SM15000 server and Freedom Fabric Storage is pushing density limits by packing up to 512 compute cores with 4TB of RAM into a 10 RU system, connecting into up to more than five petabytes of disk storage. Unusually, the first units available will feature chips from rival Intel, with models based...
Redline Slashes Latency With InRush 3
Redline Trading Solutions has released version 3 of its InRush tick plant, which leverages the latest Intel chips to slash “apples to apples” processing latency from five to just 1.2 microseconds. According to Redline CEO Mark Skalabrin, the latency figures quoted relate to InRush (version 2 versus version 3) running purely on Intel chips, and...
Q&A: Fiberblaze’s Troels Gert Nielsen on TCP Offload Approaches, Altera FPGAs and Opening Up in The Big Apple
Trading firms – especially those into HFT – are always looking for a technology edge, and customised solutions can provide it. The custom approach is what Fiberblaze specialises in, though that’s not stopping it releasing a more generalised product this month. Embracing Altera FPGAs, and opening an office in New York City is also in...