December 8 STAC Performance Summit, London
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Date/time
8 December 2010
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
2 King Edward Street
London
Agenda
STAC Benchmark Council meetings bring together the industry leaders who are building and using the latest high-performance solutions for trading. Come to hear leading ideas and exchange views with your peers.
STAC Update
Peter Lankford, Founder & Director, STAC.
Peter will review key developments related to STAC Benchmarks and STAC Test Harnesses, including advancements in testing of market data systems.
STAC-M3 Working Group Update: Tick database benchmarks
Daniel Seal, Vice President, Equity Technology, Deutsche Bank.
STAC-M3 provides standard benchmarks for time-series database solutions. Dan will review the latest benchmark specifications and ways they are being put to use.
Panel Discussion: FPGA Realities
Oskar Mencer, CEO, Maxeler
John Oddie, CEO & CTO, Celoxica
David Buechner, VP, Business Development, Impulse Accelerated Technologies
A number of trading firms use FPGA-based systems today, and a good proportion of the rest plan to consider them. A growing number are even interested in developing for FPGA themselves. Our panelists address the trajectory of FPGA hardware, the current and potential packaged products that use FPGA, and the key issues in developing code for FPGA.
Latency-optimized FIX
Mark Reece, Head of eTrading Solutions, HSBC.
The FIX protocol has become a staple of electronic trading in several asset classes. However, latency-sensitive trading groups frequently opt for native exchange protocols. In his role as co-chair of the High-Frequency Trading Working Group at FIX Protocol Limited (FPL), Mark will describe a brand new initiative to create a lower-latency implementation of FIX.
Innovation Roundup
Presenters confirmed so far are: Corvil, Endace, TS-Associates, cPacket Networks, Oregano Systems, Symmetricom, VSS Monitoring, and TIBCO.
Q&A on time sync and latency monitoring
Feedback from the last London Summit indicated that people wanted to talk more about time synchronization and latency monitoring. So, by popular demand, experts will field questions from the Council on these topics.
Panel Discussion: Networks
Dr. David Riddoch, Chief Software Architect, Solarflare
Mark Akass, CTO, BT Global Banking & Financial Markets
Richard Croucher, Founder and Chief Architect, Informatix Solutions.
Technology and economics continue to change on both sides of the firewall, be it 10GbE, Infiniband, kernel byass, DWDM, or cross-border routing. Our panelists will offer their views on where these changes are headed.
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