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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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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Leading Nordic investment bank Carnegie is leveraging Xeon 5300 processors to create a virtualised environment, consolidating 140 legacy servers down to just 16 in its data centre. The benefits include increased flexibility, improved backup and significant operational expenses.

Carnegie Success Brief - Quad-Core Intel®Xeon® processor 5300 series (PDF, 115 KB)

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Celoxica, a company which was spun out of Oxford University in 1996, is applying its accelerator technology, which combines hardware, firmware, APIs and services to reducing the latency in market data. Lee Staines, the company’s CEO, claims the solution can capture market data faster than any alternative available today.

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An early supporter of Intel’s initiative to establish the fasterLAB was HP – providing hardware and partner products to build out the environment.

You can’t get far away from HP in trading. Buy-side firms, major investment banks, and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) run on HP servers and they are all looking for more speed, more power in a smaller footprint with reduced energy consumption.

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Multi-core processors require multi-core capable applications, explains Simon Garland, chief strategist at Kx Systems, an extremely fast in¬memory and on-disk database that is a favorite of high-performance trading firms.

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With the demands of algorithmic trading, the drive to find and eliminate all possible points of latency has become something of an obsession. When you are hunting for milliseconds and microseconds, a stopwatch simply won’t do.

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“Pantor Inside” could become a new tagline for the Stockholm-based company which is achieving very high performance transaction processing on the latest Intel generations of processors. It uses the Intel fasterLAB to test and modify large configurations of the Pantor Framework and Pantor Fast Virtual Machine.

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In working with several leading Tier1 firms, JWG-IT has found that most believe that 80 percent of the processes which need to be changed for MiFID compliance are non¬competitive and that solutions can be most effectively generated through collaboration.

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• QuiC Achieves Landmark Speed With Intel Technology and DataSynapse
• Making Intel fasterLAB Work Faster
• Red Hat Talks Business Value at SIFMA
• STAC: Harpertown Cuts RMDS Power Consumption 16%
• JPMC, Swift & Red Hat Present at Intel’s fasterCITY event in London 23 June

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