Sun tops million-messages-per-second on Wall Street data system |
| 2008-07-01 |
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Sun Microsystems has broken the million-messages-per-second barrier for the Thomson Reuters Market Data System, a computerized trading platform used by many Wall Street financial houses.
The Sun benchmark was conducted using Intel-based Sun Fire X4150 servers with dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon X5460 3.16 GHz processors, running Solaris 10 operating system technologies and utilizing a 1G Ethernet network infrastructure.
Algorithmic trading continues to drive the quest for greater speed and lower latency in the capital markets sector with firms needing to re-architect their trading systems for low latency and high performance. This need is increasingly critical as financial organizations strive to keep pace with new technology and remain competitive in the face of increasing competition.
"Financial institutions are now building or looking to build optimum infrastructures to support this step-change in performance and take advantage of the computing power that is now available, whilst still reducing power requirements and total cost of ownership," said Ambreesh Khanna, CTO, Financial Services Group, Sun Microsystems.
Scalable performance is especially important at higher throughput rates, since a significant reduction in end-to-end trade latency gives capital markets firms a critical trade timing advantage in the face of increasing market data and trading volumes, without necessitating big-budget infrastructure replacement work. Sun claims that only the Solaris Operating System can continue to deliver deterministic latency performance at very high message throughput rates.
Details of the benchmark test released by Sun include:
The highest throughput for a Source Distributor (1,010,000 - 1.01 Million messages per second) and Point-to-Point (P2PS - 876,000 messages per second) achieved to date on a two-socket server for Reuters Market Data System in a traditional topology on Solaris/Intel/1GbE.
More than 3.0 Million outbound user messages per second for the Point-to-Point Server fanout.
RMDS network end-to-end latency on 1GbE network infrastructure is the lowest to date on Solaris/Sun/Intel. Sun’s Solaris OS standard networking stack provides the lowest end-to-end RMDS latency compared to previously published results.
End-to-end RMDS 6.0 latency on the Solaris OS platform at the rate of 480,000 messages per second is sub-millisecond and at 500,000 messages per second is at one millisecond.
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