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From Feargal O'Sullivan, Managing Director, High Performance Messaging at NYSE Technologies:

As promised in my last blog entry, we are ready to show our "Trading-In-A-Box" demo again at the FIA Options Conference in Chicago this week, so if you are in the neighborhood we'd love to see you drop by and check it out. Here are the details:

FIA 25th Annual Futures & Options Expo (October 20-22)
Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
NYSE Technologies at ~ Booth #327 ~
http://www.futuresindustry.org/expo-2009.asp

This time around, Intel gave us an improved, beta-version of a Nehalem-EX server with 32-CPU Cores, and it's getting us even closer to meeting that high-frequency trading nirvana I was talking about. Using NYSE Technologies Data Fabric Local Direct Memory (LDMA) Transport and a combination of Market Data Platform V5 and Universal feed handlers, we successfully got all North-American equities feeds and OPRA running on the one server. Then we added some mock algorithmic trading engines and two Market Access Gateways. We also re-jigged the display GUI to show the processor utilization better although this time Intel asked us to "hide" the latency results because they want to save the big news for the official launch in Q1 next year.

Finally, I would be totally remiss to not mention our 10Gigabit Ethernet demo too, so here's where I mention it: We will also show a live demonstration of NYSE Technologies Data Fabric publishing between six servers over 10Gigabit Ethernet using Remote Direct Memory Access, and this time we added a TCP comparison test (remember, we support LDMA, RDMA, TCP, RV and LBM all transparently under the MAMA API). Intel's NetEffect team helped set this one up and will be on hand to answer all your questions also. If you still had any doubt as to the performance penalty an application takes when relying on an IP-based middleware, then this is the demo for you.

So please, if you are anywhere near the Hilton Chicago, drop by the show and come and check out these two revolutionary demonstrations. Hope to see you there!

- Feargal

P.S. Contact your NYSE Technologies Sales Rep if you need a show pass!