Electronic/High Frequency Trading

Solarflare offers customers the lowest latency networking solutions for electronic/high frequency trading and other financial services applications with its high-performance 10GbE server adapters and OpenOnload application acceleration middleware. These products enable customers to leverage their existing Ethernet and IP infrastructures while achieving the absolute lowest latency with no need to modify applications.

Electronic/High Frequency Trading & Low-Latency Networking Papers

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  10Gb Ethernet: The Foundation for Low-Latency, Real-Time Financial Services Applications and Other, Latency-Sensitive Applications
  Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware, and Arista Networks, the leading vendor of ultra-low latency 10GbE and cloud networking solutions, recently completed low-latency switch and adapter testing. The two companies collaborated to address the growing need for low-latency, high-performance 10GbE switch-to-server solutions for high-frequency trading and other demanding applications, such as public clouds, virtualization and big data.

  
  

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  Red Hat Performance Brief: Using Solarflare OpenOnload to Achieve Extreme Low Latency on RHEL 6 | June 2012

  This paper examines the performance characteristics of the Solarflare OpenOnload technology on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6. OpenOnload® is a high performance network stack from Solarflare that dramatically reduces latency and CPU utilization, and increases message rate and bandwidth.

  
  

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  Cisco and Solarflare Joint Solution: Deliver Highly Accurate Time Synchronization for Financial Trading Applications | April 2012
  The capability to build and maintain a synchronized, accurate timing solution is the basis for successful provisioning and management of high-performance trading networks and applications. Using IEEE 1588 Precise Time Protocol (PTP) products, the Cisco Nexus® 3000 Series Switches and Solarflare SFN5322F 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter together can deliver a highly accurate precision time synchronization solution to high-frequency-trading applications within existing network infrastructure with no need to invest in and deploy a separate timing network.

  
  

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  Major International Market-Maker Migrates to Solarflare 10GbE Precision Time Protocol For Server Time Synchronization | April 2012
  A proprietary trading unit of an international liquidity provider required high precision time synchronization between hosts within each colocation center across globally distributed sites. The financial firm’s goal was to enable better precision time stamping on recorded market data to facilitate accurate retrospective simulation and to optimize its quantitative high frequency trading operation. Over the years this firm worked with timing solutions from several manufacturers, but until it evaluated Solarflare, no other product provided high performance, high precision, and ease of use for a high density server environment.

  
  

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  Global Investment Bank Deploys Solarflare 10GbE PTP Server Adapters | Feb 2012
  One of the world's largest investment banks needed to distribute time synchronization to financial transaction servers co-located at worldwide exchanges. Its challenge was to utilize Precision Time Protocol (PTP, a.k.a. IEEE 1588) technology from available ecosystem components that would allow it to deploy remotely. The firm chose Solarflare's SFN5322F server adapter to simplify and optimize its time synchronization deployments.

  
  

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  High Performance Trading - FIX Messaging Testing for Low Latency | Jan 2012
  FIX is the de-facto standard protocol used extensively for electronic communication between buy and sellside and execution venues, where the performance requirements of algorithmic and high frequency trading are extreme and or the benefits of STP (straight through processing) are sought from electronic connectivity.

  
  

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  Solarflare SFN5322F PTP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) | Learn how to optimize precision time synchronization and ultra-low latency 10G Ethernet | Dec 2011

  
  

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  Delivering HPC Applications with Juniper Networks and Solarflare Communications | Ultra Low Latency Data Center Switches and OpenOnload Application Accelerator | Aug 2011

  
  

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  Solarflare and Fujitsu Ultra-Low Latency 10GbE Switch and Adapter Testing |Ultra low latency application-level performance can be achieved with commercially available 10G Ethernet Products | Aug 2011

  
  

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  Ultra-Low Latency, High Density 48 port Switch and Adapter Testing | Ultra low latency application level performance can be achieved with commercially available 10G Ethernet Switch and Server Adapter | May 2011

  
  

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  A Low-Latency Solution for High- Frequency Trading from IBM and Solarflare | IBM Systems and Technology Group | April 2011

  
  

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  Introduction to OpenOnload—Building Application Transparency and Protocol Conformance into Application Acceleration Middleware

  
  

• Executive Summary of STAC Report
  Juniper/IBM/Solarflare

  
  

• Solarflare OpenOnload vs. RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) | Solarflare OpenOnload provides superior ultra-low latency for high-performance networking

  
  

• Solarflare 10GbE Server Adapters with OpenOnload
  Optimized for Low-Latency, High-Performance Financial Services Applications

  
  

• STAC-M2 HIGHLIGHTS: 29West LBM 3.6.1, Cisco UCS C200M1, Nehalem, 10GigE, SolarFlare, Cisco Nexus 5010 (SUT: LBM100402) | STAC Report: April 2010

  
  

• Solace, Solarflare and Arista Demonstrate Market Data Distribution with Low, Consistent Latency

  
  

• Achieving Low, Consistent Latency in Market Data Distribution with Solace, Cisco and Solarflare

  
  

• Ultra Low Latency without the Pain | STAC 11/09 Presentation
  By Solarflare Chief Software Architect, Dr. David Riddoch

  
  

• STAC Report: Latency Busters Messaging 3.3.9 with Cisco Catalyst 4900M 10GigE Switch and Solarflare NIC with OpenOnload
  Less than 19 microseconds of mean latency with less than 6 microseconds of standard deviation at rates up to 125Kmps in a low-latency configuration with OpenOnload

  
  

• Steve Pope and David Riddoch Deliver Google Tech Talk "The OpenOnload User-level Network Stack" | See full presentation on YouTube – Posted 2/15/08