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Solarflare and Solace Demonstrate Superior Market Data Performance Metrics
Hardware acceleration collaboration produces new low-latency benchmarks
Solarflare® Communications, a provider of high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) solutions, today announced an alliance with Solace Systems, the leading provider of hardware-based middleware, to ensure and facilitate the success of customers using the two companies’ products. Test results were published to show the ultra-low latency performance that can be achieved using technology from Solace and Solarflare over a 10GbE network. This alliance formalizes Solarflare and Solace actively working together to deliver robust, high-throughput, low-latency messaging to financial services and high-performance computing firms.
The tests measured the latency of market data being routed between publishers and subscribers, each using Solarflare Solarstorm® 10GbE SFP+ server adapters and Enterprise OpenOnload™ kernel bypass software, through a Solace high-speed message router. When handling 1,000,000 market data messages per second, the platform exhibited very low latency and jitter – an average latency of just 24 microseconds and a 99.9th percentile latency of 29 microseconds. Latency remained low and consistent even at much higher rates. For example, at 5,000,000 market data messages per second, average latency was 35 microseconds and 99.9th percentile latency was 46 microseconds.
All tests were performed with standard product configurations; customers can expect to reproduce these results with the same equipment and configurations. Detailed test results are available in a whitepaper on Solace’s Web site.
For more information, including performance test details, please visit www.solacesystems.com/solarflare
Executive quote
“The combination of Solace and Solarflare gives our mutual customers a strong foundation for any high-performance, low-latency trading operation,” said Bruce Tolley, vice president, corporate and financial services vertical marketing at Solarflare Communications. “We are committed to help high frequency and algorithmic trading firms build fast and predictable market data environments with our low-latency, high-performance 10GbE solutions.”
Customer quote
“For successful electronic trading, consistent latency is as or more important than absolute latency,” said Shawn McAllister, CTO at Solace Systems. “With Solarflare’s Solarstorm adapter capabilities and OpenOnload kernel bypass, variability in software jitter is minimized and, when combined with message filtering and fanout in hardware, it provides a highly predictable system – even in the face of extreme market peaks.”
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About Solace Systems
Solace Systems (www.solacesystems.com) is the leading provider of hardware-based middleware, delivering message routers that enable computer systems to share and distribute information at very high speed. Solace’s message routers are 10 to 100 times faster than competitive solutions, with performance that’s consistent even in the most demanding circumstances. As purpose-built appliances, Solace’s message routers also cost less to deploy and operate than software-based solutions. Solace hardware has been successfully implemented by global leaders in markets such as financial services, government, telecommunications and utility computing.
About Solarflare Communications, Inc
Solarflare Communications is the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server adapters and silicon. Solarflare manufactures and markets the industry’s lowest-latency, lowest-power 10GbE server adapter. Our adapters also enable accelerated virtualized networking, delivering optimized performance for cloud networking. For financial services applications, when combined with OpenOnload, the Solarflare adapter can achieve TCP/UDP application latency as low as 5 microseconds, and millions of messages per second. By improving the host CPU efficiency, OpenOnload enables applications to leverage more server resources, resulting in dramatically accelerated application performance with no impact on existing Ethernet and TCP/IP infrastructure. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California, has an R&D site in Cambridge, UK and sales offices in Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit www.solarflare.com
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