Can FPGAs Overcome the FUD?
So, those party animals at Activ Financial have invited me to a little gathering tonight – at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square – to formally launch ActivFeed MPU, their new hardware-accelerated feed handling software. It should be an great event, and I’m looking forward to finding out more about the black art of programming FPGAs (that’s...
Low Latency Crowd Braces For Hardware Acceleration
The era of software-based market data systems running on generic server and desktop hardware is now well through its second decade. The lifeblood of any large trading floor flows through the veins of its digital data distribution system. When the flow stops, all hell breaks loose. Our firm, TSAssociates, is in the business of preventing...