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Q&A: NovaSparks’ Yves Charles on Doing It All on FPGAs!
FPGAs are growing up and spreading their wings. Only a couple of years ago, their use for market data handling was considered cutting edge, whereas now it’s almost mainstream. But what about using them for more complex functionality? IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to NovaSparks CEO Yves Charles on pushing the complexity, and the challenges involved. Q: You…
One Trading Firm’s View of Low Latency
Presenting a session covering “Insights on Low Latency Execution Practices” at the HFT World conference in Chicago today, Alex Dziejma, principal and chief architect at Dymaxion Capital, pegged a definition of low latency trading as 20 microseconds “tick to trade.” Dziejma went on to suggest that the definition will shift to less than 10 microseconds…
ScaleOut Addresses Big Data In-Memory Analytics; Adds Multi-Site, Cloud Support
ScaleOut Software has released version 5 of its ScaleOut StateServer in-memory data grid. For the first time, it supports linking grids across physical sites, including leveraging cloud services – providing an elastic architecture for big data analysis. Version 5 is currently available for public clouds Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. “By helping developers and…
Lowering the Latency at SIFMA
The annual SIFMA financial tech expo has just concluded in NYC, and here are a few of the low-latency highlights – from an event that sadly overall looks to be heading for the twilight zone. * Best in show in my book was Zeptonics, launching its ZeptoLink fan-out and electronic patch panel, with port to…
Q&A: CFN’s Mark Casey on Latency Futures, Proximity and Cloud
Time to take the pulse again, here at SIFMA, to get updated on the status quo, and find out what’s coming next. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got such insight from Mark Casey, President & CEO at CFN Services. Q: Compared to a year ago, where are trading firms focusing in their efforts to align latency reduction with their…
High-Performance Trading Infrastructure on Demand
Financial markets firms can no longer spend what it takes to compete in the “low latency arms race.” The new reality demands high performance to be competitive with peers, but with an emphasis on upfront deployment and ongoing operational costs. High performance is measured not simply in trading execution speed and round-trip latency figures. Those…
Lime Brokerage Adds to Low-Latency Arsenal
With its move to offer low-latency market data to its buy side customers, Lime Brokerage is further adding to its arsenal of data, trading and risk services, perhaps making it look more like a technology vendor than market participant. Lime’s new data service is based on technology from NovaSparks, which leverages FPGA technology to process…
Savvis, Hortonworks Partner For Hadoop in the Cloud
Savvis – which offers IaaS, managed hosting and proximity services, with a strong focus on financial markets, has announced a strategic agreement with Hortonworks, a distributor of Hadoop, to offer cloud-based big data solutions to enterprises. The Hortonworks Data Platform will be integrated with the Savvis Symphony suite of cloud services, simplifying the movement of…
Recorded Webinar: Synchronizing Precise Time For Trading, Around The Planet
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. This webinar focuses on synchronizing ultra precise time (i.e. sub microsecond) across distributed (Linux) applications deployed in high frequency and algorithmic trading. The challenges are twofold: First, how to very precisely synchronize the time between computers in a trading system. The second, is how…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Lovas on the Low Latency Arms Race, TCA and Big Data
From time to time, it’s good to take the pulse of the low-latency world to get updated on the status quo, and find out what’s coming next. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got such insight from Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData. Q: Compared to a year ago, where are trading firms focusing in their efforts to align…