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Q&A: SunGard’s Aditya Yadav on Concurrent Design, and How Stealers Can Help
Most agree that most of the effort to date to reduce the latency of trading systems has been focused on the ‘easy’ areas – lowering propagation latency, speeding up network stacks, using faster processors. The ‘hard’ part – tackling application design – is yet to come, and parallelisation of business logic – aka concurrency –…
Numerix Taps Azure Cloud For Compute, Big Data
Risk and valuations vendor Numerix has enabled its Numerix Portfolio software to make use of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, offering the the ability to burst complex pricing and risk calculation processes to public cloud infrastructure. As well as providing access to increased compute resources, it also allows the processing of very large data sets to solve…
GigaSpaces Points XAP9.0 at Big Data
GigaSpaces Technologies has released XAP9.0 – its application platform – focusing it on real-time big data applications. Says Adi Paz, GigaSpaces’ EVP of marketing and business development: “What is common to all real-time analytics systems is the need for streaming data processing, alongside batch processing, such as Hadoop provides. However, building a system for big…
Q&A: Ron Huizen of BittWare on Accelerating FPGA Development
BittWare was in the news recently with its FPGA network boards being adopted by Fixnetix for its trading and pre-trade risk offering. As well as providing hardware, BittWare’s also has tools to speed up FPGA development, helping to overcome a much-cited drawback of adopting them. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to the company’s vice president of technology Ron…
Networking Roundup: Emulex, Gnodal, Mellanox
It’s Interop time in Las Vegas this week, so all those involved in the world of networking are making product announcements in between the high-roller parties and playing the casinos. Here are some highlights to prove that not everything that happens in Vegas, stays there. Emulex – In partnership with Myricom, introduced new OneConnect e12000 10gE…
Sandy Bridge, PCIe Gen 3 Give Tibco’s FTL a Boost
Intel’s recently introduced Sandy Bridge microchips, together with the latest PCI Gen 3 interconnect technology, is giving a performance boost to Tibco Software’s FTL messaging middleware – for both intra-server and inter-server communications. Officially known as the Xeon Processsor E5-2600 family, Sandy Bridge incorporate up to eight cores and 20 MB of cache, with integrated…
Google Releases BigQuery Analytics
Following about six months in beta, Google has released BigQuery, a cloud-based analytics service that it claims can run SQL-like queries on billions of rows of data “at Google speed.” The service is being pitched at enterprises looking to run ad-hoc queries on datasets, and leverages Google’s massively parallel cloud infrastructure to acheive its high…
Azul Zing Boosts OptionsCity Trading Performance; Releases 5.2 JVM
OptionsCity Software is leveraging the Zing Java Virtual Machine from Azul Systems to boost performance of its Freeway algorithmic trading and Metro market making systems. By taking advantage of Zing, the systems can take advantage of more robust, sophisticated and customised models, and predictable low-latency, to deliver better trading performance. Zing is a 100% Java-compatible…
NYSE Technologies, Bloomberg Offering Open Data APIs
This week’s formal roll out of OpenMAMA – aka the open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API – from NYSE Technologies and friends (now officially hosted as a Linux Foundation project) means that trading firms and vendors now have a choice of open data APIs, the other being Bloomberg’s newly open BLPAPI. OpenMAMA – now at…
With SIX Rollout, Nasdaq OMX Pushes Matching Latency Below 40 Microseconds
With SIX Swiss Exchange now up and running with its new SWXess platform, its technology supplier Nasdaq OMX can point to the fastest implementation of its X-Stream Inet matching technology, with average round-trip latencies of less than 40 microseconds. That’s probably the fastest matching engine anywhere in the world today. SWXess went live with equities…