Solarflare Leverages FPGAs for ApplicationOnload Engine
Solarflare Communications has announced its ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE) – combining 10gE networking with FPGA technology that allows trading applications to run fully on a network card, for the lowest latency. Planned to ship in Q2, AOE is Solarflare’s response to wide customer demand, says CEO Russell Stern. Already well established in financial markets firms with...
Vendor Consortium Pushes Reference Stack for High Performance Trading; Publishes Benchmarks for FIX Messaging
Following on from an announcement at the end of last year, a consortium of IT vendors has published a white paper outlining a reference stack for high performance trading applications, and has documented a set of benchmarks conducted on commercial and open source FIX engines to demonstrate different performance characteristics of the stack. As it...
Q&A: Brand Hunt of 60East on Awesome Code and Fast Messaging
When one thinks of low-latency messaging, it’s companies like Tibco, Informatica, Solace that come to mind. But also in the mix is the stealthy 60East Technologies, about to release its latest version. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the scoop from co-founder Brand Hunt. Q: So when and how did 60East Technologies get started, where is it today, and...
Q&A: Certichron’s Tim Costello on Why It’s Important to Know the Time!
In low-latency electronic trading, and especially in an increasingly regulated world, being able to document transactions and especially exactly when they happen – in a way that is provable when disputes arise – could be crucial. But who has the correct time? That would be Certichron, says its director of sales Tim Costello, below in...
Q&A: Mellanox’s Asaf Wachtel on Kernel Bypass and a Future in Verbs
With a new version of its VMA software and new network cards, Mellanox is pushing down latency and jitter for both Ethernet and InfiniBand. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke with the vendor’s director of business development Asaf Wachtel on the state of the art, and what’s next.. Q: For starters, can you describe briefly what your VMA software...
Q&A: Chad Attlesey of Hardcore Computer on Overclocking … And How To Do It!
A recent performance benchmark conducted by Citihub resulted in a lot of talk about “overclocking” of CPUs, and what the driver for it is. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked Chad Attlesey, CTO of overclocking leader Hardcore Computer, to explain what it’s all about, how to overclock reliably, and what performance gains might be seen. Q: Can you begin...
Guaranteed Messaging with Parallel Persistence from Informatica Ultra Messaging
To implement guaranteed messaging, some messaging vendors employ a messaging broker and a store-and-forward messaging model, to ensure that the message is persisted on a hard disk before sending along to consumers. While this model does simplify late join and loss recovery, since all messages flow through one central server, it carries a hefty price...
Azul Zings Java for Low Latency
Azul Systems has released version 5.0 of its Zing realtime Java Virtual Machine for Linux, eliminating the need for a hypervisor layer, and thus making it more attractive to developers of low-latency trading applications. In earlier versions, the required hypervisor virtualisation added unwelcome latency. Zing is 100% Java-standard JVM, which is based on Oracle’s HotSpot...
Occupy Latency?
Well it’s Friday, hence the wacky headline. The exact goals of the Occupy Movement might be hard for many to fathom, but their slogan “We are the 99%” has stuck in many people’s minds. That includes mine as I was completing a white paper for CFN Services on the benefits of leveraging managed infrastructure for...
Citihub Pushes Down IPC Latency with Hardcore/Tibco FTL Combo
Trading technology consulting firm Citihub has released highlights of performance testing it completed on Tibco Software’s FTL middleware running on Hardware Computer’s over-clocked, liquid-cooled Detonator workstation. Not surprisingly, the results are the fastest seen to date for inter-process communication. According to Citihub associate partner Ben Newton, the tests were driven by ongoing consulting engagements with...