Thesys Technologies delivers a customizable, end-to-end trading solution that helps banks, brokerage houses, and other investment groups turn trading strategies into profits. Thesys runs its high-frequency trading (HFT) platform exclusively on Intel® Xeon® processors and says each round of advances from Intel helps Thesys enable its customers to make more money with less cost. Upgrading to the six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5690 gave the Thesys HFT platform a 50 percent performance increase over its Intel Xeon processor 5500 series predecessors, and the company is looking to the Intel Xeon processor E5 family for its next performance leap.
Challenges
• High data volumes, high-speed responses. The Thesys Technologies platform must analyze millions of messages of market data per second and consistently respond within microseconds, even on the busiest trading days.
•Failure is not an option. With millions of dollars riding on a few seconds’ activity, Thesys and its customers demand rock-solid reliability.
Solutions
•Supermicro* servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. Thesys runs its custom solutions on Supermicro 1U servers powered by dual six-core Intel Xeon processors X5690 and running Ubuntu Linux* 10.04 LTS.
•Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs). Thesys increases disk reliability and performance with the Intel® SSD 320 Series.
Impact
•50 percent faster throughput. Moving to the Intel Xeon processor X5690 provided a dramatic increase in overall throughput, enabling customers to keep up with greater volumes of market data. The platform routinely processes 200 million shares daily, and has handled peaks of more than 500 million daily shares without blinking. Typical through-system latencies are well below 30 microseconds from tick to order.
•Business growth. Thesys more than doubled the volume of trades it processed in 2011, with peak days processing USD 20 billion worth of equity shares in a single day. The company is expanding into the even larger U.S. futures trading segment and looking toward other markets and geographies.
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Thesys Technologies delivers a customizable, end-to-end trading solution that helps banks, brokerage houses, and other investment groups turn trading strategies into profits. Thesys runs its high-frequency trading (HFT) platform exclusively on Intel® Xeon® processors and says each round of advances from Intel helps Thesys enable its customers to make more money with less cost. Upgrading to the six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5690 gave the Thesys HFT platform a 50 percent performance increase over its Intel Xeon processor 5500 series predecessors, and the company is looking to the Intel Xeon processor E5 family for its next performance leap.
Challenges
• High data volumes, high-speed responses. The Thesys Technologies platform must analyze millions of messages of market data per second and consistently respond within microseconds, even on the busiest trading days.
•Failure is not an option. With millions of dollars riding on a few seconds’ activity, Thesys and its customers demand rock-solid reliability.
Solutions
•Supermicro* servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. Thesys runs its custom solutions on Supermicro 1U servers powered by dual six-core Intel Xeon processors X5690 and running Ubuntu Linux* 10.04 LTS.
•Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs). Thesys increases disk reliability and performance with the Intel® SSD 320 Series.
Impact
•50 percent faster throughput. Moving to the Intel Xeon processor X5690 provided a dramatic increase in overall throughput, enabling customers to keep up with greater volumes of market data. The platform routinely processes 200 million shares daily, and has handled peaks of more than 500 million daily shares without blinking. Typical through-system latencies are well below 30 microseconds from tick to order.
•Business growth. Thesys more than doubled the volume of trades it processed in 2011, with peak days processing USD 20 billion worth of equity shares in a single day. The company is expanding into the even larger U.S. futures trading segment and looking toward other markets and geographies.
