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Platform Computing and GigaSpaces Technologies have entered into a joint marketing and technical development agreement to integrate Platform’s enterprise-wide grid resource management solutions with GigaSpaces’ technology for end-to-end linear scalability of transactional and data-intensive applications.
From early 2007, Euronext will offer a cash trading platform capable of handling up to 10 times current volumes at 20 times the speed, early tests of the system have shown.
By Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, A-Team Group
Low-latency distribution of market data via direct exchange feeds appears to have hit its stride. In fact, it has become the latest arms race. The fact remains, however, that there is no standard measurement of market data latency that offers apples-to-apples comparison between competitive data feeds, feed handlers and databases.
From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, December 2006: Benchmarking tests suggest that the new quad-core Intel Xeon processing 5300 series chips launched by the vendor in considerable style at the so-called ‘Gherkin’ building in London late last month will facilitate vast latency reductions in market data delivery.
BT Radianz plans to expand its New York Area data center. The multi-million dollar enhancement will increase capacity by 150 per cent for Radianz’s Proximity Solution, which facilitates advanced trading strategies including direct market access and algorithmic trading.
Securities Technology Analysis Center (Stac) has released its first study of Reuters RMDS on a system using InfiniBand networking. In the benchmarks, the Voltaire InfiniBand solution reduced latency by up to 46% compared to Ethernet. Using expected 2007 peak update rates, the difference amounts to a quarter millisecond for US level 1 equities and nearly half a millisecond for OPRA.
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