Activ Financial Introduces Hardware Accelerated Feed Engine
Activ Financial has ActivFeed MPU (Market Data Processing Unit), a hardware accelerated solution for low-latency exchange feed processing. The new offering leverages AMD64 and Field Processor Gate Array (FPGA) co-processortechnology.
Activ is porting its market data ticker plant solution directly onto silicon using an FPGA co-processor and AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport technology. “We have been tracking this technology in our labs since we started the company and architected our software systems to enable hardware acceleration,” notes Mike Dunne, CTO of Activ Financial. “Our efforts have led to a system that not only offers key latency and TCO benefits, but will extend the world-class reliability and advanced operations management features of Activ’s systems. AMD64 technology enables us to efficiently integrate both the traditional AMD Opteron processor as well as a co-processor card which plugs directly into the CPU socket. The performance improvements for processing market data are astounding.”
Dunne adds that “The amount of general purpose hardware needed to handle projected message rates for top-of-range systems is growing. The new MPU approach could potentially reduce an 8 to 12 server installation into a single hardware-accelerated device.”
