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Aleri has joined the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Benchmark Council and has become the first event-processing platform (EPP) vendor to make its products available to STAC Lab for end user evaluations.
It’s been a while I know, but this blogging business just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. My thanks then to “Uncle” Tom Groenfeldt for alerting me on his blog to the recent departure from Sun Microsystems of Larry Scott, where he was vice president for financial services. Larry is going somewhere, though he’s not telling, at least not yet. But his departure jogged my memory to some offline conversations I’ve been having of late, not least during the Linux on Wall Street conference that I chaired the other week.
STAC has released more test results on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE), using technology from two vendors: Blade Network Technologies (BNT) and Chelsio Communications. BNT offers a 10GigE switch module for the IBM BladeCenter, and Chelsio provides 10 GigE NICs. STAC tested the technology under market data workloads because the vendors believed that the combination of the high-speed BNT switch with Chelsio’s TCP Offload Engine (TOE) would improve both latency and throughput in market data environments. The tests revealed the lowest mean latency and the lowest standard deviation of latency ever reported with RMDS.
Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) has released its first test results involving 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) technology. Teak Technologies provides 10GigE switches and NICs under the product name AZ-10GE. One of the distinguishing features that Teak claims is “Acceleration Zone Ethernet”, a hardware-based collection of algorithms that detect, diagnose and rectify networking artifacts that hinder application performance and prevent a firm from achieving the full potential of 10GigE.
Intel recently released quad-core Xeon processors (code named “Harpertown”) based on a 45nm manufacturing process, which the company claims significantly reduce power consumption compared to its previous generation of quad-core processors (”Clovertown”). Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) performed a study comparing the power consumption of a server using Harpertown processors to the same server using Clovertown processors, running a market data load of 2 million updates per second across a stacked RMDS configuration that utilised as much of the eight cores in this system as possible. The Harpertown processor decreased the server’s overall power consumption by 16 per cent (333 watts versus 395 watts) and increased the server’s market data efficiency (updates per second per watt) by 19 per cent (6010 ups/W versus 5060 ups/W).
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Sun has joined the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Benchmark Council to help define standard performance metrics for trading technologies and has become an Innovation Sponsor for the Manhattan-based STAC Lab. On the STAC Benchmark Council, Sun will contribute to specifications under consideration by its participating trading firms. As an Innovation Sponsor, Sun is providing the lab with several of its latest technologies, including the 2U Sun Fire X4450 server with four quad-core Intel Xeon processors, the Sun Fire X4600 server with 8 AMD Opteron processors, and the 64-thread Sun T5120 server with UltraSPARC T2 processors and integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
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The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) has tested GemCache Data Transactions, an integrated solution from GemStone Systems, IBM, and Intel configured to handle high-speed trade order messages. The focus of the benchmark was to measure latency at different order rates for a system that was configured for zero data loss. The system consisted of GemFire Enterprise 5.0 software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4, IBM eServer BladeCenter HS21 servers with Intel Xeon Quad Core 5355 processors, and SDP over Cisco SFS InfiniBand. The report can be accessed on the GemStone Web site by visiting www.gemstone.com. A preview of the next GemCache benchmark on scalability will be available in Q1 2008.
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Quant House’s QuantFeedhandler, its feed handler technology to standardise exchange raw market data feeds, is able to decode more than 2 millions messages per second, benchmark tests carried out at fasterLAB, the Intel low latency lab in London, on several versions of the multicore Intel Xeon platform, have shown.
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The first general meeting of the STAC Benchmark Council took place on December 17 2007 at Credit Suisse in New York. Despite the proximity to the holidays, 74 representatives of 40 firms attended to make connections with their peers in the industry and share views on technology, measurement and the council. Andy Brown, CTO of infrastructure at Credit Suisse, kicked off the meeting with some remarks on the technical challenges facing securities firms today and his belief in the valuable role of STAC and the STAC Benchmark Council. The STAC team then presented an overview of the council: why standard benchmarks are necessary, how the council is organised and the role that STAC is playing as a catalyst. To view the presentation, follow the links at www.STACresearch.com/council.
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CME Group is to launch an upgrade to the CME Globex electronic trading platform that will significantly reduce message response time, as part of a raft of technology enhancements. During testing, under a replay of peak market conditions, the upgraded CME Globex platform demonstrated a more than 50 per cent reduction in response time, from an average of 31 milliseconds down to around 16.5 milliseconds. In 2007 an average 8.5 million contracts a day traded electronically at CME Group.
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