by Marina Bashneva | Feb 3, 2021 | High Frequency Trading, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
Low latency in High Frequency Servers for HFT (High Frequency Trading) is one of the vital elements to success. Among many factors that effect latency, hardware and network are the key elements to successfully achieving the lowest latency possible. High frequency...
by Marina Bashneva | Jan 27, 2021 | Data Center, Financial, High Frequency Trading, High Performance Computing, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) are hardware circuits that carry out operations and can do one, multiple or many. This is what makes them an “array”. They are built and programmed to be extremely quick at what you want them to be quick at. In the financial...
by Marina Bashneva | Dec 2, 2020 | Cooling, Data Center, Financial, High Frequency Trading, High Performance Computing, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
Speed, execution and money all go hand in hand in the financial computing environments. “Fast” is no longer fast enough and time to complete a transaction is imperative. Profit and loss live and die in the space between milliseconds, and if you’re not...
by Kirill Gindush | Sep 14, 2020 | Data Center, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
When monitoring key elements of your server infrastructure, the main aim is to create alerts to detect hardware errors. E-mail alerts are a good example of this practice. When a hardware error is discovered in the Supermicro IPMI event log, there are many ways of...
by Betim Begolli | Jul 14, 2020 | Data Center, High Performance Computing, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Power Draw, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation, Uncategorized
Today, I would like to talk about power hungry CPUs and “phantom” throttling, featuring 10980XE. Intel’s 10980XE can require more than 500+W to reliably run at overclock speeds surpassing ~4.7GHz. In our testing we found an issue that was more difficult to...
by Kirill Gindush | Jun 1, 2020 | Data Center, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
This post will feature both a general overview of Intel software RAID vs. hardware RAID. The comparison will include performance numbers. PROS CONS No additional hardware required RAID levels are limited Cheaper cost No dedicated cache Very easy to use Slower...
