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XtremeData is now shipping the first AMD Socket F (1207) based In-Socket Accelerator. The device is compatible with the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor and incorporates dual Altera high-performance Stratix II FPGAs. The new XD2000F accelerator module targets financial data analytics and data communications system design applications. It plugs into servers via the HyperTransport technology bus at 800MT/s to significantly speed compute-intensive computer processing. The HyperTransport bus offers a high-bandwidth, low latency interface for other processors and memory in dual, quad and octal platforms. Placing the XD2000F in one or more of the CPU sockets gives the In-Socket Accelerator a high-speed link to memory as well as a fast connection to the host processor without requiring board modifications, while providing a simple hardware integration path, the vendor claims.

XtremeData News Release

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QuIC Financial Technologies, provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics solutions, has partnered with Intel for testing of Intel’s new Harpertown quad core 45Nm processors. QuIC’s testing of Intel’s new Harpertown processors showed promising double digit performance improvement results in client risk management and simulation trials, the partners say. QuIC’s testing also found that in using its latest generation of 45Nm quad-core IntelXeon processors, Intel has managed to deliver ultra low latency and significant performance increases in algorithmic trading, direct market access and market data delivery.

QuIC News Release

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Currenex has been added as a market centre on the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) from NYSE TransactTools, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext. Through SFTI’s high availability and low latency network, customers are able to receive market data and trade on Currenex using TCP/IP, XML and FIX. Currenex, which was acquired by State Street earlier this year (Electronic Trading, February 2007) provides execution technology and access to liquidity for banks, corporations, hedge funds and other active trading firms in the foreign exchange markets. Created in 2002, SFTI is the resilient, low latency communications backbone dedicated to the financial industry. It offers connectivity to NYSE as well as other exchanges, market centres and content services providers, including all of the National Market System markets in the US, and also connects to more than 800 market participants including Liffe, the international derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, which joined the service earlier this year (Electronic Trading, October 2007).

TransactTools News Release

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Euronext and Liffe say their new high capacity trading services have been well received among their customers. Liffe has received orders from more than 60 customers for dual 100Mbps connectivity and orders from in excess of 20 customers for its purpose-built co-location facility, both services which will be available from Q2 2008. Euronext has received orders from more than 20 customers for dual 100Mbps connectivity available from January 2008 and its co-location offering will be made available to customers by the end of Q1 2008. The new 100Mbps broadband access will enable customers to benefit from high speed access to both market data and order entry on Euronext and Liffe markets, to match constantly increasing order flow and market data volumes.

Euronext News Release

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Equinix, provider of network-neutral data centres and internet exchange services, has extended its network of Equinix Financial eXchange communities to include London and Paris. These two new locations join Equinix’s existing communities in Chicago, Frankfurt and New York, and will provide financial organisations with secure, reliable and low latency connectivity to global financial trading centres as well as a platform for community members to interconnect with each other and multiple service providers.

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STAC has released a study of latency on HP c-Class Blade Servers with Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Voltaire InfiniBand. The system used Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) 6, running on HP BL460c Blades with 2 x Dual Core Intel Xeon 5160 3.0 GHz processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4. STAC investigated latency on Gigabit Ethernet versus Voltaire InfiniBand using a traditional RMDS topology in an identical system environment. It also tested a stacked RMDS topology that maximised the utilisation of cores while also taking into consideration factors in real customer deployments.

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The International Securities Exchange has launched a colocation service, providing ultra low latency connectivity to ISE’s options and stock exchanges. With the colocation service, ISE member firms will be able to place their trading hardware in the same building as ISE’s data centre, which will facilitate network transit times of less than 200 microseconds.

ISE News Release

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Interactive Data Corporation’s Real-Time Services business is to provide a range of low latency data to General Welfare Group. By integrating Interactive Data’s PlusFeed into its proprietary trading applications, General Welfare Group will have access to low latency data from the North American financial markets. This data will help support General Welfare Group as it designs, develops and implements its trading strategies.

“We made the decision to switch from our previous data provider because of the speed, data coverage and flexibility offered by Interactive Data’s PlusFeed,” says Richard Cooper, managing director, General Welfare Group.

Interactive Data News Release

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This monthly bulletin from the Financial Information Forum provides key data points for market data rates.
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Data Stream Analysis Limited (DSAL), provider of real-time complex data and event processing solutions, has released results from the second in a series of performance tests carried out at Intel facilities using the StreamBase complex event processing (CEP) engine running on Intel processors. The tests were conducted at Intel’s Low Latency Laboratory at Winnersh in Berkshire, UK, and were carried out on calculations of aggregated values used in algorithmic trading strategies. The results achieved were: 48 per cent - increase in updates processed per second; 53 per cent - reduction in the standard deviation between updates processed per second.

Technorati Tags: Data Stream Analysis Limited, DSAL, StreamBase, Intel, Low Latency Laboratory, algorithmic trading, complex event processing, CEP