Super Micro Computer last month introduced a new line of "Hyper-Speed" servers, pitching them at high frequency trading applications. The company says they work by "maximising processing power and precisely tuning hardware and firmware to attain up to 30% lower latency." And just as importantly, the servers feature "high reliability as a primary design focus." So what are these servers, and how does Supermicro boost their performance?
There are some great certainties in life, such as taxes, death and so on. But death rates and taxes can go up and down. Not so with market data. There is no argument. Data rates always go up.
Thomson Reuters expects the financial markets to move to a cloud-based, managed services delivery model, and it is positioning its Elektron platform to meet that requirement, says David Craig, president of the company's Financial & Risk unit. Craig was interviewed by A-Team's Andrew Delaney, for sister community ReferenceDataReview.com.
2013 looks set to prove a dynamic year for hiring in the low-latency technology sector. With a growing diversity in the “end user” space, we here at Harrington Starr - a specialist financial IT recruiter - are predicting significantly increased demand for talent with the best candidates in high demand. 2012 has proved a very interesting year for trading technology with a skills shortage very noticeable in many niche and growing areas. Low-latency technology has very much fallen into this category with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) at the kernel.
When sizing up a data sheet, what numbers pop out at you? IOPS? GB/s? Latency? If you’re like most IT professionals, you might be starting to pay more attention to latency. In case you’re still wondering what all the fuss is about, let’s look at why low latency is so important, why it’s a challenge to get right, and how to avoid marketing tricks that attempt to dismiss its importance in favour of other benchmarks.
Emulex isn't the first company that comes to mind when thinking of low-latency network vendors, but through a series of actions it's making an increasing contribution to the technology underpinning automated trading. The latest development was last week's announcement that it is to acquire latency monitoring specialist Endace.
Many global companies, especially in the front office of capital markets, have a strategic need to send real-time data from one location to another, often thousands of miles away, over a Wide Area Network (or WAN) connection.
Dell has introduced a self-installable firmware upgrade to its PowerEdge servers that boosts their CPU performance by 13% to 31%, while also reducing jitter. The Dell Processor Acceleration Technology (DPAT) upgrade has already been tested by firms engaged in algorithmic trading with significant results. Oh, and the upgrade is free.
Nasdaq OMX's planned London-based NLX derivatives exchange will leverage the exchange group's own Genium Inet technology to ensure low-latency matching. The exchange will base its primary matching engine at Equinix's popular LD4 facility in Slough, west of London, where co-lo facilities will be available.
Super Micro Computer last month
Over the holidays, it was announced that 
There are some great certainties in life, such as taxes, death and so on. But death rates and taxes can go up and down. Not so with market data. There is no argument. Data rates always go up.
Thomson Reuters expects the financial markets to move to a cloud-based, managed services delivery model, and it is positioning its Elektron platform to meet that requirement, says David Craig, president of the company's Financial & Risk unit. Craig 
2013 looks set to prove a dynamic year for hiring in the low-latency technology sector. With a growing diversity in the “end user” space, we here at Harrington Starr - a specialist financial IT recruiter - are predicting significantly increased demand for talent with the best candidates in high demand. 2012 has proved a very interesting year for trading technology with a skills shortage very noticeable in many niche and growing areas. Low-latency technology has very much fallen into this category with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) at the kernel.
When sizing up a data sheet, what numbers pop out at you? IOPS? GB/s? Latency? If you’re like most IT professionals, you might be starting to pay more attention to latency. In case you’re still wondering what all the fuss is about, let’s look at why low latency is so important, why it’s a challenge to get right, and how to avoid marketing tricks that attempt to dismiss its importance in favour of other benchmarks.
Emulex isn't the first company that comes to mind when thinking of low-latency network vendors, but through a series of actions it's making an increasing contribution to the technology underpinning automated trading. The latest development was last week's announcement that it is to 
Many global companies, especially in the front office of capital markets, have a strategic need to send real-time data from one location to another, often thousands of miles away, over a Wide Area Network (or WAN) connection.
Dell has introduced a self-installable firmware upgrade to its PowerEdge servers that boosts their CPU performance by 13% to 31%, while also reducing jitter. The Dell Processor Acceleration Technology (DPAT) upgrade has already been tested by firms engaged in algorithmic trading with significant results. Oh, and the upgrade is free.
Nasdaq OMX's planned London-based NLX derivatives exchange will leverage the exchange group's own Genium Inet technology to ensure low-latency matching. The exchange will base its primary matching engine at Equinix's popular LD4 facility in Slough, west of London, where co-lo facilities will be available.