| Recap of 2011 activities | Document reviews STAC Benchmark Council activities from 2011 and previews some of the things ahead in 2012. |
| Kove research on kdb+ and file systems | Kove uses STAC-M3 with their DRAM-based storage to study the effect of volume and directory configuration on kdb+ performance. |
| STAC kicks off new research thread with “STAC Network API Study A” | Collaboration with Mellanox, Solarflare, and University of New Hampshire yields bindings for RDMA, Sockets, RDS |
| Vault report: Ion Computer SR-71 SSD-based storage with kdb+ tick data | Unaudited STAC-M3 Benchmark of Kx Systems kdb+ 2.7 with Ion Computer SR-71 Application Server and SSD-based storage |
| STAC-M3 Report: kdb+ with Kove XPD2 Storage and Dell-Kove R910 Appliance | Audited STAC-M3 Benchmark of Kx Systems kdb+ 2.7 with Kove XPD2 DRAM-based Storage system sets several new official STAC-M3 records |
| Vault report: STAC-M1 results of SR Labs MIPS on Everest and Westmere processors | Audited STAC-M1 Benchmarks of SR Labs MIPS Market Data Line Handler 3.7.0 with TVITCH 4.1 on two different Intel servers. |
| STAC Bi-Temporal Data SIG intro call on October 7 | A topic made more urgent by regulatory and risk management trends. |
| STAC-M3 Report: kdb+ on 4-socket IBM x3850 and DataDirect Networks SFA10000 | Audited STAC-M3 Benchmark of Kx Systems kdb+ 2.7 on the IBM x3850 server and DataDirect Networks SFA 10000 Storage. This is the first SUT to publish results for volume-scaling (STAC-M3 Kanaga) benchmarks. |
| Fall 2011 STAC conferences announced | Low-latency events and analytic technology events to be held across NY, London, and Chicago |
| STAC to keynote IEEE symposium | Peter Lankford, Founder and Director of STAC, will deliver the keynote address at the 2011 International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication |