Trade Performance

Algorithmic trading is a race as the financial services industry tries to develop sophisticated strategies and then beat the competition by capturing, analyzing and acting on information as it appears. The quicker the systems, the better trading desks will perform. This increasingly prevalent form of securities trading is radically changing the market data business through dramatic growth in volume, forcing data providers to focus on extremely low market data latency at extremely high message volumes.

Need to reduce latency on Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Start by reading our guide to tuning the RHEL 5 operating system to reduce latency. Some chapters are written for the RHEL5-RT product only.

Software Certification Matrix

Application	RHEL 5	RHEL 4	Additional links
Reuters Market Data System	RMDS 6.3 is currently certified	RMDS 6 is currently certified
Wombat	Currently in progress. Contact Wombat for details.	Currently certified	http://www.wombatfs.com/technical/os_api.htm

Reuters

Red Hat works with leading market data platform provider Reuters to tune and optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux to achieve superior performance for demanding workloads in the financial services industry.

Reference Architectures:

• RMDS 6 Reference Architecture on RHEL 5

STAC Reports:

• RMDS 6.3 with Chelsio TOE-Enabled 10GigE NIC and Red Hat MRG Real Time (December 08)
• RMDS 6.3 on Red Hat Enterprise MRG with 10GigE (November 08)
• RMDS 6.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, Six Core 2.4Ghz Intel Xeon E7450, Intel 10GigE NICs, Cisco Nexus 5020 switch (September 08)
• RMDS 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter H with HS21 Blades, Dual Core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon 5160, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, Blade Network Technologies Nortel 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter H, Chelsio Communications NIC S320EM-BCH (March 08)
• RMDS 6.0, IBM BladeCenter H with HS21 Blades, Quad Core 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon 5355, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, Teak AZ-10GE Ethernet Switch (March 08)
• RMDS 6.0 on Quad Core 2.83 GHz Intel Xeon E5440, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, Stacked RMDS Topology (Feb 08)
• RMDS 6.0.2, HP BL460c c-Class Blades, Intel Xeon 5160 3.0 GHz, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4, Voltaire Infiniband Mezzanine HCA, Voltaire InfiniBand Software/SDP & MCE
• RMDS 6.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, 4 Quad Core 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon X7350, Intel Caneland), 4x Intel Pro ("Kirkwood") GbE NIC
• RMDS 6.0, HP ProLiant DL380, Dual Core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon 5160, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4, Traditional RMDS Topology
• RMDS 6.0, HP ProLiant DL585, Dual Core 2.6 GHz Opteron, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3, Stacked RMDS Topology

Wombat Financial Software Inc.

Red Hat partners with Wombat, a NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solution, enabling its high speed market data and messaging platform to achieve world-class performance.

STAC Reports:

• Wombat/OPRA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4, 2 Quad Core 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon 5355, Dell PowerEdge 1950, Cisco DAL/InfiniBand
• Wombat (Wommark 2.19 over WMW), Cisco SFS InfiniBand, Tyan Dual Core 2.8 GHz AMD opteron 2200SE (Rev F), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 (64-bit)

The Red Hat Enterprise MRG Trading Platform

The Red Hat Enterprise MRG Trading Platform combines a high-speed messaging solution using AMQP, Linux realtime kernel, and Condor Grid technology to help firms address their need for a low-latency, high-performance infrastructure.

• Read more about Red Hat Enterprise MRG
• Red Hat Enterprise MRG - MRG Messaging: Throughput (on Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors & Gigabit Ethernet)
• RMDS 6.3 on Red Hat Enterprise MRG with 10GigE (November 08)