Content about Messaging, Data Fabrics and Local Networking

Las Vegas is the destination this week for many Tibco users attending its annual Tucon event. The highlight for many might well be a show by 90s rockers Train at the big party on Wednesday night. But for all of us in the low-latency world, the focus will be on Tuesday's keynote, when benchmarks for the recently released version 1.1 of FTL messaging will be announced. And here's a little preview ...

Thomson Reuters has filled a gap in the senior ranks of its Enterprise Solutions unit, with the appointment of Deutsche Bank's Ralf Roth to the role of global head of Elektron Transactions and Strategy. Elektron is the company's managed hosting and co-location offering, providing low-latency market data, risk management, analytics and transactional services.

AdvancedIO Systems, a premier provider of ultra low latency solutions, announced today its latest product that addresses the growing demand for ultra fast trade execution and pre-trade financial controls. The V5022, a quad 10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtex-6 PCI Express card, doubles port density and reduces latency by more than 50 percent when compared to other technologies on the market.

Based on several component products, NYSE Technologies has introduced its Enterprise Ticker Plant, designed to deliver market data to a wide variety of applications across a trading firm, from low-latency algorithmic trading systems to desktops running Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the SX1016, an ultra-dense, low-latency 64-port 10GbE switch delivered in a sleek, top-of-rack 1U form factor. Based on the company’s performance-leading SwitchX switch silicon ICs, the SX1016 delivers up to 1.28Tb/s of switching bandwidth, extreme port density and remarkably low 1.8W per port power consumption, making it an ideal choice for customers who are aiming to reduce data center bandwidth bottlenecks, space and energy.

Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) hardware and software, announced today the release of its 10GbE mezzanine adapter family to address the high-performance networking needs of customers using IBM and HP blade servers. The SFN5812H dual-port and SFN5814H quad-port 10GbE mezzanine server adapters for IBM BladeCenter, and Solarflare's SFN5802K dual-port 10GbE mezzanine adapter for HP BladeSystem c-Class, expand Solarflare's ability to reach customers in scale-out computing environments such as HFT, HPC, cloud and big data applications.

NYSE Technologies recently rolled out version 6 of its Data Fabric messaging platform, including significant new functionality for scale out of networks while maintaining very low latency. Low-Latency.com checked in with Brian Doherty, NYSE Technologies' global product manager for Data Fabric, to find out the how and the what.

NYSE Euronext is the latest announced exchange customer for Solarflare Communications, which sells go-faster 10gE network interface cards (NICs) and acceleration software. The company announced CBOE as a customer earlier this month.

Force10 Networks, a leader in high-performance data center networking, today announced that it has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Solarflare, a leader in high-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server adapters and software, to bundle Force10’s S4810 top-of-rack (ToR) data center switch with the Solarflare SFN5122F Enterprise dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) SFP+ server adapter and the Solarflare SFN5162F Midrange dual-port 10GbE SFP+ server adapter rproviding customers with an end-to-end solution for 10GbE networking. The bundles are available through Force10’s authorized distributors, Avnet and Synnex, in Europe, US, and Canada in configurations that include 12, 24 and 48 server adapters along with S4810 switches.

Maxeler, pioneer of Maximum Performance Computing and provider of complete acceleration solutions, today announced the launch of MaxNode10G, a platform designed for wire-speed processing of multiple 10 gigabit network data streams.

Myricom, Inc., the technology leader in extreme-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions specialized for vertical markets, today announces DBL 2.0 for Windows software for its Myri-10G 10-Gigabit Ethernet network adapters. DBL for Windows is the first commercially available solution that accelerates UDP and TCP communication for Windows servers in high frequency trading. DBL for Windows enables low-latency UDP multicast and TCP order execution, all over industry-standard 10-Gigabit Ethernet.

Inter Thread Communication (ITC) is not a new concept. Developers have been doing it for quite some time. However, doing it fast and well has been tricky. This mimics almost all of the modern day messaging communication primitives, such as IPC and reliable multicast. That is why I believe that ITC is the new ground for ultra low latency messaging.