Last week at the High Performance on Wall Street conference, conversation was dominated by the role that specialty hardware can play in accelerating financial trading environments. Technologies like FPGAs, network processors, ASICs and even GPUs were the center of discussion as firms with direct experience shared performance metrics, specialty hardware providers communicated their advantages and software-only solutions took pot shots.

There are now compelling specialty hardware components for nearly all of the end-to-end performance chain including:

  • GPU assist for algo and Monte Carlo simulations (NVIDIA)
  • FPGA-based feed handlers (Celoxica , Exegy, Red Line )
  • Network processor & FPGA-driven messaging (Solace Systems)
  • Network acceleration technologies (Cisco, NetEffect)
  • Analytics (XtremeData )

At last year’s HPoWS, hardware acceleration was an emerging story. This year it was center stage in the industry’s premier event focusing on ultra-low latency and coping with data volume growth.

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Solace helps large enterprises become modern and real-time by giving them everything they need to make their business operations and customer interactions event-driven. With PubSub+, the market’s first and only event management platform, the company provides a comprehensive way to create, document, discover and stream events from where they are produced to where they need to be consumed – securely, reliably, quickly, and guaranteed.

Behind Solace technology is the world’s leading group of data movement experts, with nearly 20 years of experience helping global enterprises solve some of the most demanding challenges in a variety of industries – from capital markets, retail, and gaming to space, aviation, and automotive.

Established enterprises such as SAP, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Canada, multinational automobile manufacturers such as Renault and Groupe PSA, and industry disruptors such as Jio use Solace’s advanced event broker technologies to modernize legacy applications, deploy modern microservices, and build an event mesh to support their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and IoT architectures.

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