HPCwire: ACTIV Financial Advances Low-Latency Application Interoperability

The Leading Source for Global News and Information Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing

HPCwire >> Industry >> Financial Services

June 23, 2009

ACTIV Financial Advances Low-Latency Application Interoperability

Page: 1 of 2
1 | 2 All »

Latest client API upgrade affirms company's commitment for seamless support of lowest latency trading architectures

NEW YORK, June 23 -- ACTIV Financial, a global provider of fully managed low-latency market data solutions, today announced it has bolstered its application programming interface (API) to further reduce latency between ACTIV's market data management solutions and third-party applications. This latest release, the eleventh iteration since it was launched in 2004, enables current ACTIV API users to leverage their choice of best-of-breed tools to maximize trading capabilities, provide fastest possible response times and simplify coding to drive competitive edge.

Systemic latency goes beyond the market data infrastructure, making application integration critical to address end-to-end latency requirements of trading architectures. By providing direct access to the full repository of ACTIV's latency-optimized solutions, ACTIV API users can leverage the company's high-performance aggregation, middleware and distribution technologies, including ACTIV's hardware-accelerated solution MPU, to streamline workflow, improve throughput and dramatically reduce systemic latency.

Since it was first released, ACTIV has continuously updated its API to ensure that users have the greatest flexibility and functionality to combine industry solutions and native developments without adding milliseconds. The consistent and reliable platform supports real-time content changes with no recoding requirement, providing end users with the flexible market data infrastructure they need to power lowest latency trading systems.

Driven by performance, functionality and ease of use, the ACTIV API is already used in more than 50 different ISV products, including algorithmic trading engines, tick store databases, complex event processing (CEP) platforms and more, as well as several thousand unique end-user GUI and trading applications at more than 300 firms around the globe.

"Most people recognize ACTIV as a low-latency market data aggregator, but the ACTIV platform is also an enterprise-class distribution platform with rich client API functionality and a fully compliant exchange entitlement and reporting system," said Mike Dunne, CTO at ACTIV Financial. "The ACTIV platform is increasingly becoming the market data backbone at some of the world's largest financial firms, and ISVs realize that supporting the ACTIV API is a must-have feature for their applications."

Using the enhanced API, ACTIV customers receive only the data they need for their applications, allowing client CPUs to perform less work and further reduce latency and data processing costs throughout the entire trading course.

Features of the new API include:

Shared-memory access to the ACTIV platform running on the same machine rather than requiring a network connection.
Support for the latest Microsoft, Oracle/Sun Microsystems and GCC compilers (part of the GNU/Linux operating system project) furthering access and flexibility for developers and users alike.
Support for all 10 existing API releases.

These enhancements are in addition to the existing API functionalities:

C++, pure Java and pure C# and under Mono 2.0.
Comprehensive operating system interoperability for C++, 32-bit and 64- bit versions of Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and MAC OS X.
Wide-ranging CPU support, including x86, x64, SPARC family and Itanium family.
Powerful request model that minimizes roundtrips to the server for fastest possible response times and simplified coding.
Access to ACTIV's enterprise-class messaging platform with rich client API functionality.
Support for all manner of required response queries and subscription models.
Access to the middleware infrastructure tier within a full security master construct to access news database; historical calls-to-time; sales and daily price histories; and company fundamental, reference and corporate actions databases.

ACTIV Financial will be exhibiting in booth #1313 at the SIFMA Technology Management Conference from June 23-25, 2009, at the Hilton New York. For more information or to schedule a meeting, contact kzack@articulatepr.com.

Page: 1 of 2
1 | 2 All »

Article Tools

Share Options

(Digg, Technorati, more)

Subscribe

Subscribe to HPCwire

Discussion

There are 0 discussion items posted.

Join the Discussion

You must be a registered user in order to comment on HPCwire stories.

Members enjoy:

	Access to Special Content, including Podcasts, Webcasts, and Whitepapers and more!
	Ability to take an active role in the discussions that are shaping the HPC technology discipline!
	Special offers available only to HPCwire members!

Become a Registered User Today!

Registered Users Log in Here to Comment

Email Address:	Password (case sensitive)

Remember me	Forgot Password?

RSS Feeds

Feeds by Topic

Feeds by Industry

Feeds by Content Type

Feature Articles

The Week in Review

C-DAC announces plans for a petaflop system; IBM researchers are working on vertical integration techniques to extend Moore's Law another 15 years. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
Read More...

Moscow State University Supercomputer Has Petaflop Aspirations

The Moscow State University supercomputer, Lomonosov, has been selected for a high-performance makeover, with the goal of tripling its processing power to achieve petaflop-level performance in 2010. T-Platforms, who developed and manufactured the supercomputer, is the odds-on favorite to lead the project.
Read More...

Intel Ups Performance Ante with Westmere Server Chips

Right on schedule, Intel has launched its Xeon 5600 processors, codenamed "Westmere EP." The 5600 represents the 32nm sequel to the Xeon 5500 (Nehalem EP) for dual-socket servers. Intel is touting better performance and energy efficiency, along with new security features, as the big selling points of the new Xeons.
Read More...

Read more HPCwire features...

Top Headlines

Australia Commissions Cray Supercomputer

Mar 19 | OfficialWire | New super to support intelligence work Down Under. Read more...

Intel Partners See 'Easy' Upgrade Path With Xeon 5600 Chips

Mar 18 | ChannelWeb | Westmere parts already showing up in HPC machines. Read more...

AMD: OEMs primed for Opteron 6100s

Mar 17 | The Register | But what about the tier ones? Read more...

Arrival of the Desktop Supercomputer

Mar 17 | Cadalyst Magazine | A new generation of workstations is changing the nature of technical computing. Read more...

Scheduling HPC In The Cloud

Mar 17 | Linux Magazine | Latest iteration of Sun Grid Engine able to tap into Cloud. Read more...

Read more headlines...

Featured Whitepapers

Virtualization for Aggregation And The vSMP Architecture™

Jan 12 | | In-depth look at vSMP Foundation server virtualization technology, technical implementation, use cases and capabilities. The technical whitepaper provides an architectural overview and details on the three vSMP Foundation products: vSMP Foundation for SMP, vSMP Foundation for Cluster and vSMP Foundation for Cloud.

Copper Cable Technologies for High Performance Computing

Jan 18 | | This white paper discusses Gore’s copper cable assemblies, and how they continue to exceed the standards for providing reliable, cost-effective solutions for high-performance computer applications.

View the White Paper Library

Multimedia

Webcast: Virtualized Data Center Roundtable

Join this online panel discussion for live Q&A with leading industry experts, analysts, and end-users to discuss the latest innovations, best practices, barriers to implementation, and measurable benefits of server virtualization with a particular focus on today's real world solutions.

Webcast: Watch SC09 Birds of a Feather Video: Scalable Fault-Tolerant HPC Supercomputers

Learn about scalable fault-tolerant architectures and examples of energy efficient and scalable supercomputing clusters using dual QDR InfiniBand to combine capacity computing with network failover capabilities with the help of programming languages such as MPI and a robust Linux cluster management package.

Webcast: High Performance Computing for a Smarter Planet

LIVE@SCO9: The IBM team discusses new innovations in hardware, software and services that help clients better understand their workloads and get insight from their R&D efforts. Technology demonstrations include the soon-to-be-released Power7 HPC processor, the DCS990 system with 2.4 petabytes of storage, the xCAT management tool, secure HPC cloud computing and more. Winners of two HPCwire Readers' and Editors’ Choice Awards! Take the IBM virtual tour at SC09 or more information go online to: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/sc09.html