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By Tony McManus, Wombat Financial Software and John Morrell, Coral8

The recent increases in global execution volumes are driving a common need among all market participants for high-speed business logic deployed in ever shrinking timescales. Because of this, real-time analytical event processing is now a cornerstone of trading technology in the multi-asset capital markets sector. In order to create and maintain a competitive advantage, these increasingly sophisticated trading institutions insist that their systems utilize a high-performance, low latency processing platform that is easy to develop, deploy, extend and integrate.
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Endace and Trading Metrics are partnering to help customers improve the speed of their electronic trading transactions by providing a traffic capture mechanism - monitoring both business applications and underlying technical infrastructure - that reduces network delays without impacting performance.
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Launched at last week’s SIFMA show, Gemstone Systems debuted Gemcache, comprising its Gemfire data fabric, running on IBM System x bladeservers, themselves based on Intel Quad-Core Xeon processors. The solution delivers high speed data distribution layered on I/O Acceleration technology and a high availability model and system management framework.

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Reuters, Intel, HP and Voltaire are collaborating to pitch what they say is the lowest latency offering based around Reuters Market Data System (RMDS). The Infiniband-based tuned configuration reduces the overall system latency by as much as 48 percent (compared to an ethernet-based configuration), according to independent testing by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC).
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I’m referring to last week’s SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibit in NYC. True, the new name (the result of the SIA’s merger with the Bond Association) was a bit of a put off - many people suggested that SIFMA sounded like some horrible strain of bird flu - but otherwise it’s been the best SIA (sic) Show I’ve been to in years.
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The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has begun to use BT Global Financial Services‘ Radianz Proximity Solution, enabling traders to execute extremely low latency electronic trading on the SGX derivatives market from any location across the globe. Buy-side firms will now have the ability to obtain market data feeds at high speed, with direct order routing into the SGX trading engine with connection to a local broker.

BT GFS News Release

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Low latency datafeed/middleware specialist Wombat Financial Software has released it’s latest platform, dubbed Wombat Data Fabric, leveraging Infiniband technology from Voltaire. The new offering can sustain more than one million 200-byte messages per second over a Voltaire switch in less than 100 microseconds using commodity hardware.

Voltaire News Release

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Hardware-based ticker plant vendor Exegy is working with DRC to deploy various financial trading applications leveraging DRC’s coprocessor modules. Exegy already uses AMD Opteron and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology in its appliance, offering throughput of two million messages per second. The link up with DRC will allow its coprocessor to be hosted within Exegy’s appliance (in according with AMD’s Torrenza initiative using a Opteron core) providing tight coupling with minimal latency.

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Thomson Financial will use Radianz Ultra Access from the newly-named BT Global Financial Services as an ultra low latency source of U.S. exchange data for its new Thomson Data Feed (TDF). TDF is hosted at BT GFS’s Radianz Proximity center in New York City. Using Radianz Ultra Access reduces TDF latency by 50 percent, and enables transaction speeds of less than one millisecond per round trip between local market participants and market data/transaction venues.

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SUSE Linux distributor Novell and Infiniband provider Voltaire are pitching a joint low latency solution to improve performance of real-time trading applications in the financial markets. The combined solution consists of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, Voltaire Grid Backbone Infiniband-based switching solutions, Openfabrics Enterprise Edition (OFED) 1.2 Infiniband software and additional enterprise-focused functionality from Voltaire. Voltaire’s solutions provide 10 or 20 Gbps bandwidth utilizing Infiniband and RDMA technology, to minimise latency and CPU overhead.

Novell News Release

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