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Recap of 2011 activities

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:53:33 -0600

Document reviews STAC Benchmark Council activities from 2011 and previews some of the things ahead in 2012.

Kove research on kdb+ and file systems

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:10:16 -0600

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”

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:13:51 -0600

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

admin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:00:00 -0500

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

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:10:31 -0500

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

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:45:20 -0500

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

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:58:34 -0500

A topic made more urgent by regulatory and risk management trends.

STAC-M3 Report: kdb+ on 4-socket IBM x3850 and DataDirect Networks SFA10000

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:30:49 -0500

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

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:43:01 -0500

Low-latency events and analytic technology events to be held across NY, London, and Chicago

STAC to keynote IEEE symposium

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:33:56 -0500

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