Hardware trading: The machines are taking over…

Posted by Larry Neumann on Mar 22, 2010

With each day that passes it becomes more obvious that hardware is replacing software in the critical path of high performance trading. It doesn’t take a genius to see what’s happening, as the evidence is everywhere:Feed handlers: All of the recent entrants into the feed handler market are using custom hardware. Messaging middleware: Appliances from companies like Solace are winning...
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Filed under Capital Markets, Hardware, Messaging
Tagged with algo trading, CPUs, feed handlers, FPGAs, GPUs, Hardware, Messaging, network processors

Hardware acceleration in the spotlight at HPoWS

Posted by Larry Neumann on Sep 29, 2008

Last week at the High Performance on Wall Street event, conversation was dominated by the role that specialty hardware can play in accelerating financial trading environments. Technologies like FPGAs, network processors, ASICs and even GPUs were the center of discussion as firms with direct experience shared performance metrics, specialty hardware providers communicated their advantages and...
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Filed under Capital Markets, Coverage, Financial Services
Tagged with FPGAs, Hardware, low-latency