SIFMA Tech Dispatches: Day Two

It’s moving towards mid-afternoon and foot traffic at the SIFMA Tech conference is starting to pick-up.

Before you ask, the tschoke pickings are pretty slim along with the in-booth entertainment. The best I’ve seen is FTF’s larger-than-life Operation game, which promises to bring back memories of playing the original game in the family room during a rainy afternoon.

Other floor news includes SteamBase’s new booth that reflects its recent acquisition by Tibco. No news on planned product integration between the two technology platform yet, according to officials, who point out that the two platforms have worked together at the messaging level since 2005.

StreamBase is displaying a new real-time surveillance application that agency broker ConvergEx developed to meet the surveillance requirements of the SEC’s Rule 15c3-5. It took the broker about a six months to develop and deploy the application, which replaces Excel-based flat files.

Activ Financial is discussing the pending autumn release of its MPU Gen3 data acceleration platform, which is expected to double the performance of the current Gen2 offering. The new offering uses a Stratix V FPGA from Altera that sits on a Solarflare network card with Solarflare’s ApplicationOnload Engine.

Meanwhile, data-acceleration appliance vendor NovaSparks is distributing its results for the STAC Labs M1 market data benchmark, including the benchmark’s latest addendum. In short, the benchmark measures the time from when the first bit of data from the first message hits the appliance to when the data is in server memory and ready to be put into a user data framework, such as building a book. At a 20x replay speed, the NovaSpark platform delivered a 3.4 microsecond latency 99.99% of the time. At 2x replay speed it fell to 3.3 microseconds for 99.99% of the time.

More coverage as time permits.