Myricom: Extreme Performance Ethernet

Arcadia, CA – Jan. 9, 2011. Myricom, the technology leader in extreme-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions specialized for vertical markets, today announces that Trading Physics, a producer of analytic software and custom market data delivery systems, has adopted Myricom’s 10G-PCIE2-8C2-2S dual port SFP+ adapters along with Myricom’s DBL 2.0™ low-latency software for High Frequency Trading (HFT) applications.

“The depth feeds contain all orders placed for equities listed on five exchanges: NYSE, NYSE/ARCA, NASDAQ, BATS, and Direct Edge – an avalanche of data, and processing this order book data with the lowest possible latency is critical to the success of high frequency trading strategies. A customer asked us to achieve sub-five microsecond latency from the top of the switch to client server delivery. After extensive research we found Myricom’s extreme performance low-latency solution to be very attractive. Unlike products from other vendors, Myricom’s solution did not require the use of custom server hardware to process the feeds,” said Artem Novikov, Founder of Trading Physics. “We ordered network adapters, set up a benchmarking test bed using Myricom native DBL libraries, and rapidly surpassed the target benchmark with production data. The customer is delighted with the results.”

Three servers were involved in the test: the feed replay server, the normalization server that produces the normalized feed, and the capture client that obtains both feeds and measures latency by comparing timestamps. The average application message latency measured at the client server was only 4.0 microseconds.

Hardware Configuration

Feed Replay Server:

• Fedora 14 x64
• CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5520
• Network Adapter: Myricom 10G-PCIE2-8C2-2S+DBL2

Capture Client Server:

• CentOS 6.2 x64
• CPU: 1x X3220
• Network Adapter: Myricom 10G-PCIE2-8C2-2S+DBL2

Normalization Server:

• Fedora 14 x64
• CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5520
• Network Adapter: Myricom 10G-PCIE2-8C2-2S+DBL2

Switch:

• Blade Network Technologies G8124E (now IBM System Networking)

“Myricom continues to innovate adaptable, extreme performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet hardware and software solutions to help our partners’ and customers’ achieve their low-latency networking goals,” said Dr. Nan Boden, CEO, Myricom. “We are proud to deliver competitively priced, superb networking solutions that incorporate deep engineering expertise and outstanding technical support -- all critical factors behind HFT design wins.”