Sun Microsystems (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.

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The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) has performed a study comparing the power consumption of a server using Xeon 5400 “Harpertown” processors to the same server using previous generation “Clovertown” processors, running a market data load of two million updates per second across a stacked Reuters RMDS configuration that utilized as many of the eight cores in this system as possible.

The Harpertown processor decreased the server’s overall power consumption by 16 per cent (333 watts versus 395 watts) and increased the server’s market data efficiency (updates per second per watt) by 19 per cent (6010 ups/W versus 5060 ups/W).

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Intel has joined the The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Benchmark Council and has entered into a multi-year lab agreement with STAC as an innovation sponsor. The agreement builds upon a benchmarking relationship that Intel established with STAC over a year ago.

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Results of a vConsolidate Benchmark performance test of the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 series, jointly performed by Intel and Virtual Iron, show a remarkable improvement in virtualization performance and scalability.

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In the financial services industry, automated trading is a race. For these financial services firms, one of the keys to maximising portfolio performance is reducing data latency. However with the volume of market data expected to continue to double each year, the latency through many installed market data systems is growing.

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Results and Configuration Details:

Benchmark Description for SPECint*_rate_base2006: SPECint*_rate_base2006 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the integer throughput performance of a computer system carrying out a number of parallel tasks.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/measured results as of August 2007.

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Application virtualization is set to play a key role in the next wave of exchange systems. This might seem obvious given the impact virtualization is having elsewhere, but there are some subtleties to do with the way electronic trading is implemented that make this non-trivial. The relentless rise in program trading, driven by the hedge fund industry in particular, has further increased the demand for automated electronic trading.

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With open source solutions becoming more popular among financial services firms, Intel and Red Hat are tuning the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Operating System and middleware applications for Intel’s multi-core platforms.

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Intel, Voltaire, Reuters and HP have created the industry’s highest-performance, lowest-latency solution for advanced trading. The collaborative solution for Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) delivers market data 50% faster than traditional environments, giving a critical timing advantage to trading applications.

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Organizations in the financial markets today are faced with a number of internal, regulatory, and competitive pressures. Internally there are calls for improved collaboration and alignment between IT, operations, and business departments. IT executives are being tasked with reducing complexity, lowering costs, operating more efficiently, and being more responsive to business requirements.

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