Sun Microsystems and Intel Break Million-Messages-per Second Barrier
for Thomson Reuters Market Data System
Demand for Low-Latency, High-Speed Delivery Continues to Drive
Technology Enhancements for Financial Institutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) July 1, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) today announced new benchmark
performance results for Thomson Reuters market data platform. The new
benchmark demonstrates that running the platform, known as Reuters
Market Data System 6.0.3 (RMDS), on Sun technology not only provides the
best throughput performance to date by breaking the million-messages-per
second barrier, but also the lowest available network latency on a 1Gb
Ethernet.
“Intel is focused on engineering architectures
which fully optimize the features of our processors to achieve lowest
possible latency in trading operations. This involves close
collaboration with partners such as Sun around both hardware design and
the unique features of Solaris 10 for the benefit of our joint customers,”
said Nigel Woodward, Global Director, Financial Services for Intel. “Sun
has invested in Intel fasterLAB program to facilitate this joint
engineering activity.”
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 even more critical today 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. “Through
partnerships with the world's leading application vendors and innovators
like Intel and Thomson Reuters, Sun enables firms to achieve
low-latency, high-availability trading.”
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.
Experience has shown that only the Solaris™
Operating System can continue to deliver deterministic latency
performance at very high message throughput rates.
Benchmark test highlights:
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The 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 (Solaris OS)
technologies and utilizing a 1Gb Ethernet network infrastructure. This
benchmark was done using the Thomson Reuters standard topology, not
stacked topology.
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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.
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More than 3.0 Million outbound user messages per second for the
Point-to-Point Server fanout.
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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.
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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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To date Solaris OS is one of the few platforms able to measure RMDS
latency at 700,000 messages per second, providing under 1.5
millisecond end-to-end latency for RMDS at this message rate.
For more information on Sun’s work in
Financial Services: http://www.sun.com/solutions/landing/industry/financial_services.xml
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation,
community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in
more than 100 countries an on the Web at http://sun.com.
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Sun, Sun
Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Fire and Solaris are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States and other countries.
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