Posted on September 22nd, 2008
Middleware Innovation Slashes Latency and Hardware Footprint on Industry Standard Hardware
NEW YORK, Sept 22, 2008 – NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions, a world leader in low latency trading technology and division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced an innovative software based solution that has the capability to comfortably handle 10 major US equities feeds on a single server with potential headroom of 3x current market peak capacity. The key ingredients of this implementation were its flagship high performance middleware, Wombat Data Fabric™ and its feed handler technology.
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008
Aleri Announces Results of Second Commissioned STAC Performance Report
CHICAGO, September 22, 2008 - Aleri Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology, announced today that a second round of independent test results on the Aleri Streaming Platform have been completed and released by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®). The test provides a benchmark of the new 45 nm Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series (formerly Dunnington) vs. the 65 nm Xeon 7300 (Caneland) that was used for the previous round of tests. Both tests were run on the Sun Fire X4450 running the Solaris 10 operating system. Results show performance scales linearly when going from the four-core Xeon 7300 processor to the new six-core Xeon 7400 processor, yielding more than 50 percent throughput gain as well as electrical savings.
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008
A second round of independent test results on the Aleri Streaming Platform completed and released by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®). The test provides a benchmark of the new 45 nm Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series (formerly Dunnington) vs. the 65 nm Xeon 7300 (Caneland) that was used for the previous round of tests.
STAC Report Aleri-Intel Xeon 7400-Solaris 10 (1.71 MB)
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008
Rogue Wave® Hydra leverages Intel® Multicore Solutions to deliver high performance SOA applications. Download the benchmark results below.
Rogue Wave - Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series (formerly Dunnington) Performance Benchmark Results (20 KB)
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Posted on September 19th, 2008
Collaboration Achieves Linear Scalability on Multicore Chips Using Rogue Wave(R) Hydra
BOULDER, CO–Sep 19, 2008 — Intel and Rogue Wave Software, Inc., the leader in enterprise class C++ components and infrastructure, today announced that they will jointly demonstrate results of recent performance tests of Intel’s latest Xeon server and Rogue Wave’s Hydra at the 2008 High Performance on Wall Street Conference. These tests have demonstrated how service parallelism can help achieve linear scalability on multicore architecture, addressing a significant computing issue facing the financial services industry. The demonstrations will be conducted in booth #224, on September 22, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. For more information on the conference, which is entitled “Low Latency, Acceleration and Agility in the Financial Markets,” visit www.highperformanceonwallstreet.com.
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Posted on September 16th, 2008
Intel has extended its lead in the high-end server segment, setting new standards in virtualization performance with the launch of seven 45 nanometer (nm)-manufactured Xeon Processor 7400 Series products (Previously codenamed Dunnington). With up to six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory, applications built for virtualized environments and data demanding workloads, such as databases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation, experience dramatic performance increases of almost 50 percent in some cases.
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Posted on September 5th, 2008
Providing point-to-point high-speed links to distributed shared memory, Intel® QuickPath technology unleashes the parallel processing performance of next-generation Intel® 45nm microarchitectures (codenamed Nehalem and Tukwila). These microarchitectures, built from the ground up, will be the first to use the Intel QuickPath interconnect system and can see significant improvements in overall performance.
For the latest information on QuickPath, including a white paper and Flash demo, visit:
www.intel.com/technology/quickpath/
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Posted on September 4th, 2008
Intel’s next-generation microarchitecture (codenamed “Nehalem”) represents the next step in processor energy efficiency, performance, and dynamic scalability. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of hafnium-based Intel® 45nm hi-k metal gate silicon technology, Nehalem will also be the first to introduce Intel® QuickPath technology.
For the latest information about Nehalem, including white papers, podcasts, and more, visit:
www.intel.com/technology/architecture-silicon/next-gen/
To view a Flash demonstration, visit:
www.intel.com/technology/architecture-silicon/next-gen/demo/demo.htm
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Posted on August 26th, 2008
Infoworld published this preview of the much anticipated Dunnington processor:
“Intel plans to launch its six-core Xeon server processor next month, with the extra cores and a larger cache giving the chip a performance advantage over the company’s existing quad-core chips.
Code-named Dunnington, the six-core Xeon processor is designed for servers that have four or more processors. Manufactured using a 45-nanometer production process, the chip should be the last new model based on Intel’s Penryn processor design before the release of the company’s first Nehalem chips in a few months’ time.”
Read the entire article here http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/21/More_cores_bigger_cache_give_boost_to_Dunnington_1.html
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Posted on August 25th, 2008
At last week’s Intel Developer Forum, Intel executives discussed new features of the company’s next-generation processor family - including a new turbo mode that shifts the processor into a higher gear for mind-blowing performance without a heat penalty.
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008
An interesting article from HPCWire, which relates to getting the most out of multi-core:
“Intel has introduced Parallel Studio, a suite of four tools to help application developers write parallel programs on multicore and manycore platforms. The suite is aimed at the millions of C and C++ programmers struggling to incorporate parallelism into their applications, and it does so not just by providing tools, but also by baking the expertise needed to use them effectively right into the toolset.”
Read the entire article http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Intel_Develops_Toolset_for_Parallel_Programming.html
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Posted on August 19th, 2008
Sun Microsystems has extended its family of Intel Xeon-based Sun Fire servers with two new offerings for High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud/Web 2.0 and back office computing workloads, including a 1U server for HPC workloads and an expandable 2U enterprise-class system. The Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 servers, powered by one or two dual- or quad-core Intel Xeon processors 5200 or 5400 series, run a variety of operating systems, including Solaris 10, Linux and Windows.
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Posted on August 13th, 2008
According to Arthur Cole blogging on ITBusinessEdge, the new generation of fiber optic technology will revolutionize computing with the latest chipsets. Photonics technology that connects processor cores to on-chip systems through optical interconnects is destined to lower power consumption and increase the speed of computers. From the article:
Intel is pushing this technology the farthest at the moment, demonstrating a design that puts up to 200 Gbps on a single beam, twice as fast as current optical networking technology. The company is looking to combine up to 25 40-Gbps modulators onto a single chip to get the data rate up to a terabit or more.
Read the entire article here: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/atc/?p=428
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Posted on August 11th, 2008
A recent article in Computerworld talks about Intel’s recently released System-on-Chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor. Article author Brian Fonseca writes:
Intel has launched its System-on-Chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor, which is said to offer lower power and customization capabilities for embedded voice, storage and security applications. The new product family is the first wave of Intel’s revamped SoC design, which the company said adds smarter chip intelligence.
The integrated offering [is] based on Intel’s Pentium M processor and combines the functionality of four chips into a single circuit, according to Seth Bobroff, general manager of Intel’s Storage Group.
Read the entire article here: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1115361782;fp;2;fpid;1
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Posted on August 8th, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.–HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing.
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Posted on July 29th, 2008
Novell Real Time Linux Webcast Series
In this series of brief webcasts, learn how SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time from Novell enables organizations to respond quicker by delivering low latencies, deliver increased value with fast response times, and better manage costs. Listen to experts from industry-leading companies like Thomson Financial, Wombat Financial Software, and Intel discuss how they depend on Real Time Linux from Novell to deliver mission-critical data the second they need it and not a moment later.
Don’t waste another millisecond; view a Novell Real Time Linux Webcast today!
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008
In an article published during the SIFMA Technology Management Conference in June, Wall Street & Technology magazine took a look at the trend of virtualization in the financial services sector. Radakrishna Hiremane, senior product marketing engineer at Intel, was interviewed for the article. The following is a brief excerpt:
Intel’s Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq), which are baked into the vendor’s 5400 “Harpertown” chipset and will be part of its other server chipsets going forward, offloads certain virtual machine software functions, such as the sorting of data, to hardware, speeding up the process, according to the company. Intel calls this hardware-assisted virtualization. Using VMDq on a 10gigE network interface card, Hiremane says, Intel has demonstrated a data throughput of 9.8 gigabytes per second.
Read the entire article online here: Wall Street Firms Increasingly Are Adopting Virtualization Technologies.
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008
According to an article recently published in eWEEK, IBM’s iDataPlex server array will be used for testing Microsoft’s Windows High-Performance Cluster operating system. From the article:
To help with HPC, IBM is also expanding iDataPlex with Intel Xeon quad-core 5400 series processors—3.0GHz—to pack 145 teraflops of performance into one of the company’s new 315-square-foot modular data centers.
Read the entire article online here: IBM Scores Microsoft as First iDataPlex Customer.
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Posted on July 15th, 2008
2008 IBM and Intel Virtual Conference Series
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
For more information and to register, please visit: http://go.virtualtradeshowslive.com/IBM-Intel
Join us for the Virtual Conference Series, brought to you by IBM and Intel, to access:
- Expert advice on today’s most important technical issues
- Webcasts from industry luminaries
- New chat, network, and blog capabilities
- The premier Virtual Conference Series from the convenience of your desktop
Webcast Schedule:
Wednesday, July 16, 2008:
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern
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Posted on July 11th, 2008
Jonathan Schawartz, CEO and President of Sun Microsystems, recently blogged about a major milestone–achieving a speed record of one million messages per second. The feat was accomplished running Reuters Market Data System 6.0.3 (RMDS) on a Solaris 10 for Intel silicon.
You can read Jonathan’s comments here: Solaris on Wall Street - Faster and Faster.
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