Arista Debuts Application Switch; Embeds FPGAs Into Network for Lowest Latency
Sun Microsystems might have coined the the slogan “The Network Is The Computer” but it is Arista Networks that is today delivering on the concept with its first Application Switch, which embeds FPGA processing into a switch so that business logic can really be run in the networking fabric itself with lowest-latency data access. With...
Q&A: Mohammad Darwish of AdvancedIO on FPGA Directions
The electronic trading marketplace has been an early adopter of FPGA technology, most often to accelerate I/O and basic feed handling. Now, firms are looking to use FPGAs for more complex business logic. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Mohammad Darwish, president and CEO of AdvancedIO Systems, about this trend. Q: Firstly, let’s find out some more about...
Endace “To Review Options” After Revenue Hit
In a trading update issued on Monday, networking and latency monitoring specialist Endace said that expected full year revenues would fall short of estimates by 10% and that it had appointed Deutsche Bank to “review options for the future.” That usually means a company is open to being – or looking to be – acquired....
Q&A: Sumerian’s Bryan Clark on Big Data Analytics and Operational IT
For Sumerian, the focus is not so much on capturing and storing big data, but much more on analysing it to provide insight into how IT systems – especially for electronic trading – are working, how they might perform under load and how to tune them to make them both high performance and efficient. We...
Q&A: Lee Staines of Celoxica on Low-Latency Beyond Equities
Celoxica recently extended its hardware accelerated data feed and execution platform to include foreign exchange and fixed income markets. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with president Lee Staines to find out what’s driving the development. Q: Celoxica has added support for foreign exchange and fixed income to its market data and trade execution technology. What are the...
Increasing Trade Performance: A Quest for Lower Latency, or Simply Improved Monitoring?
Performance. We all grow up assessed for it. But in today’s trading environment, how can organisations balance increased regulatory requirements and maximise the efficiency of their core trading functions? Less operational resources means firms are challenged with creating more sophisticated business logic that differentiates them from the competition in the never ending quest for lower...
Intel’s Sandy Bridge Set For Low-Latency Applications
Intel has released its Xeon E5-2600 processor family for servers, bringing its ‘Sandy Bridge’ architecture and Advanced Vector Extension instruction set to enterprise applications, including for low-latency trading. Intel claims that the 2600 can double the performance of computational applications, such as financial number crunching – analytics, complex algorithms, risk management. Implemented on 32-nanometre silicon,...
Informatica and MapR Working to Boost Hadoop Data Integration
Informatica and MapR Technologies are working together to boost the performance As part of the initiative, a community edition of Informatica’s HParser will be available as a component of the MapR distribution. HParser provides out-of-the-box Hadoop parsing capabilities for data sources, such as logs, call data records, industry standards, documents and binary or hierarchical data....
NovaSparks Adds Data Feeds; Outlines FPGA Matrix Architecture; Details Performance
NovaSparks has added support for an additional five data feeds to its Gen2 appliance, while at the same time outlining the FPGA matrix architecture that the appliance implements in order to handle multiple feeds and application functionality, and detailing its latency profile. The new data feed support comprises feeds from Bats (BYX and BZX), Direct...
Q&A: Intilop’s Kelly Masood on Doing IT in Silicon
Not too many traders have heard of Intilop, though its technology is probably widely deployed within the low-latency trading systems they rely on, especially in the areas of network processing. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to the company’s CEO/CTO Kelly Masood to find out the ‘inside’ story. Q: Can you begin by introducing Intilop and what the company...