Accelerating Wall Street 2010

With data latency now measured at millisecond intervals, message volume exploding and more demand than ever for new and innovative trading products, technology organizations are turning to the fastest and newest technologies in order to stay ahead. Hardware acceleration, complex event processing and colare front and center in Wall Street`s battle to lower latency and analyze real-time data.

For the past few years, financial firms have relied on the newest, fastest processors to power cutting-edge trading architectures. Today, having the fastest processor is still a prerequisite, but some of the most innovative low latency work is taking place in silicon: FPGAs, GPUs and other hardware that is helping to reduce latency. What works, what`s hype and what silicon-based technology should firms use in the low latency race?