IBM

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IBM WebSphere® Front Office for Financial Markets offers a low-latency, market data platform for integrating real-time market data. (more)

The vendor says:

IBM WebSphere® MQ Low Latency Messaging is a highly optimized messaging transport that facilitates the high-speed delivery of market, trade, reference and event data. (more)

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IBM provides middleware solutions for market data distribution and execution related workloads.

Tested against: STAC-M3 Kanaga Suite (optional volume-scaling benchmarks)

Stack tested:

• Kx Systems kdb+ 2.7
• DataDirect Networks SFA10K-X Storage System
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 with ext4
• IBM x3850 X5 server with 516GB memory
• 4 x Intel X7560, 8 core, 2.27GHz
• Mellanox ConnectX-2 host server adapters

Tested against: STAC-M3 Antuco Suite (baseline benchmarks)

Stack tested:

• Kx Systems kdb+ 2.7
• DataDirect Networks SFA10K-X Storage System
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 with ext4
• IBM x3850 X5 server with 516GB memory
• 4 x Intel X7560, 8 core, 2.27GHz
• Mellanox ConnectX-2 host server adapters

Dr. Carl E. Abrams, Financial Services Sector Business Executive, IBM Research, was the speaker for this session at the 13 June 2011 STAC Analytics Technology Conference.

James Lynch, VP and General Manager, Financial Services Sector, Netezza, an IBM Company, was the speaker for this session at the 13 June 2011 STAC Analytics Technology Conference.

Audited STAC-M2 Benchmark of IBM LLM on an IBM-BNT G8264 switch, using IBM x3550 servers and Mellanox MNPH29C-XTR ConnectX®-2 EN with RoCE

STAC Report Highlights* for:

IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging v2.6.0.0, RHEL AS v5.5, IBM x3550 M2 Server, 2 x quad-core Intel Xeon X5570 2.93 GHz processors, Mellanox MNPH29C-XTR ConnectX®-2 EN with RoCE, IBM-BNT G8264 10/40GigE Switch

Tested against STAC-M2 v1.0 specs.