DDN Reports Boost in STAC-M3 High Frequency Trading Benchmark

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Dec. 7, 2021 – HPC-AI data storage and management company DDN  today announced what it called “dramatically improved” results in the STAC-M3 benchmark for measuring performance in high frequency trading utilizing DDN’s newly announced A3I AI400X2 appliance. The STAC-M3, used by banks, brokerage houses, exchanges, hedge funds, and proprietary trading shops, is the […]

GIGABYTE and Incooling to Develop Two-Phase Liquid Cooled Servers for High Frequency Trading

Incooling has adopted GIGABYTE’s overclockable R161 Series server platform as the test-bed and prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooled overclockable servers designed for the high frequency trading market. “Incooling’s technology is capable of pushing temperatures far below the traditional data center air temperatures, unlocking a new class of turbocharged servers. It does this by leveraging specialized refrigerants using phase-change cooling, inside a pressure-controlled loop. This is a highly efficient method that allows exchange of the heat from the chip with the datacenter air with far less thermal resistance. Coupled with the R161 overclockable server from GIGABYTE, Incooling’s solutions are able to push performance further than ever before. First system tests showed up to 20°C lower core temperatures contributing up to 10% increase in boost clock-speed whilst lowering total power draw by 200 watts.”

CIARA steps up to High Frequency Trading and Blockchain with AMD

CIARA just announced new AMD-based systems for ultra-low latency, high Frequency Trading and Blockchain solutions. “With the adoption of new technologies such as large core count processors and the usage of ECC memory, the path for all financial enterprises to reap the benefits of safe hardware acceleration without compromising reliability is getting easier,” said Patrick Scateni, Vice President of Enterprise and Performance Group at CIARA. “The joint solutions coming from the CIARA and AMD will bring high-performance and broader choice of compute platforms to the FSI market.”

Video: CAT Supercomputer to Track Dark Pools on Wall Street

In this video, Better Markets CEO Dennis Kelleher discusses the progress of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), a proposed SEC supercomputer that will be used to track orders and peer into dark pools. While this sounds like a good idea, Kelleher describes the conflicts of interest inherent in the proposal process the SEC is using for CAT. Kelleher is the CEO of Better Markets, a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization founded in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to promote the public interest in the financial markets.

ICC Updates Overclocked Vega Financial Servers with Broadwell-E

Today International Computer Concepts (ICC) announced that it has upgraded the company’s ICC Vega line of high-frequency trading servers with the latest Broadwell-E microarchitecture from Intel. After extensive testing, the Vega servers featuring overclocked Intel Core i7 processors are ready to ship to customers.

Trading Show Chicago to Showcase HFT Technologies

Next week, purveyors of HFT will meet with top traders and investors at The Trading Show Chicago at the Navy Pier on June 4-5, 2014.

This Week in HPC: High-Frequency HPC and Japan Space Agency Preps for Petaflops

In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research discuss high frequency trading and the High Performance on Wall Street Conference. After that, they look at a Fujitsu’s Petascale upgrade at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The novel architecture for this Sparc-powered FX10 follow-on system will feature Micron’s Hybrid Memory Cube technology.

This Week in HPC: Intel Goes Big Memory and Lucera Brings High Frequency Trading to the Cloud

In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman from Intersect360 Research and Rich Brueckner from insideHPC discuss Intel’s new Xeon E7 V2 processors designed for in-memory analytics. Following that, they take a look a the secret sauce behind Lucera’s new cloud for High Frequency Trading.

Lucera Announces On-demand Infrastructure for Global Electronic Trading

Today Lucera Financial Infrastructures announced the availability of its high-performance infrastructure to power electronic trading by financial institutions and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms.