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Cisco Systems has created a low latency datafeed offering, collaborating with Reuters, Sun Microsystems and Intel. The offering consists of the Reuters Market Data System installed on Sun servers running Solaris 10, powered by Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 series with Cisco Infiniband Server Fabric switches. Tests conducted by Sun acheived a maximum throughput rate of two million updates per second on a single Reuters Market Data System process.

Cisco News Release

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STAC has released a benchmark of Reuters Market Data System (RMDS 6) running on a single Intel “Caneland” server with four Quad Core Intel Xeon X7350 processors (for a total of 16 cores), running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 and communicating over Gigabit Ethernet.

Stacked configurations were used to exploit the 16 cores as much as possible. The results are the highest Source Distributor throughput and Point-to-Point Server throughput achieved to date on a single 4-socket or 2-socket server, including:

- 2,800,000 updates per second in the Source Distributor throughput test and
- 2,200,000 updates per second in the P2PS throughput test.

STAC News Release

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STAC has released a benchmark focused on mininizing transport latency, comprising Wombat Financial Software’s market datafeed simulator, 29West’s Latency Busters Messaging, a Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 M2 with 2 Dual Core AMD Opteron 2.8 GHz processors and Solaris 10 update 3. The solution was able to deliver an overall mean latency of 84 microseconds at 50,000 updates per second over standard Gigabit Ethernet.

STAC News Release

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Intel, Sun Microsystems, Reuters and Cisco Systems are leveraging Monday’s High Performance on Wall Street event to announce the results of tests on a high performance solution to accelerate financial services applications. Conducted by Sun, the tests included a Reuters application running on Intel, Sun, Reuters and Cisco technology, along with new Cisco high-performance software.

Visit www.highperformanceonwallstreet.com for more information and to register.

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London-based Datastream Analysis Ltd (DSAL) - a Streambase Systems partner and application developer - has benchmarked calculations used in algorithmic trading at 200,000 calculations per second and 1.5 million updates per second, leveraging Intel’s Low Latency Laboratory in the UK.
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Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) has released results of a benchmark conducted on Exegy’s Ticker Plant (XTP), showing 80 microsecond mean latency at one million updates per second. The benchmark configuration included the Field Processor Gate Array (FPGA)-based XTP version 1.2, Mellanox Infiniband and clients running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 on AMD multicore processors.
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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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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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Kx Systems has released Version 2.4 of its Kdb+ low-latency database platform, extending multi-threading support for simultaneous users, enabling filtering of millions of messages per second. The new version doubles the application speeds for filtering and querying data streams such as market data feeds and supports realtime corrections on order book data as it is received and dynamic indices for nested data.

Kx News Release

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