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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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The annual SIFMA (formerly SIA, now merged with the Bond Association) Technology Management Conference and Exhibit kicks off next Tuesday, and a number of companies from the down and dirty world of hardware - chip manufacturers, networking technology vendors etc. - will be on show. Here’s who to visit …
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Securities Technology Analysis Center has published highlights from an upcoming benchmark report, covering Wombat Financial Software’s OPRA Feed Handlers and 29West’s Latency Busters Messaging, running on a Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server using Solaris 10. The system under test has 8 dual core AMD 8220SE 2.8 GHz processors, for a total of 16 cores.

STAC News Release

Jeffrey Birnbaum - former Managing Director and Chief Technical Architect for the Institutional Securities division at Morgan Stanley, who left the firm quietly last year - has re-emerged as the founder of a stealth mode start-up, 60East Technologies.

At 60East, he is leading the developing of the Advanced Message Processing System (AMPS) which he claims delivers unprecedented levels of performance required for real- time environments (greater than 1 million FIXML messages per second) using multi- socket, multi- core commodity computers and 10 gigabit networking.

Birnbaum will be presenting alongside IBM at tomorrow’s Linux/Open Source on Wall Street event in New York City.

From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, December 2006: Benchmarking tests suggest that the new quad-core Intel Xeon processing 5300 series chips launched by the vendor in considerable style at the so-called ‘Gherkin’ building in London late last month will facilitate vast latency reductions in market data delivery.

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