Intel is working with UK-based processor accelerator specialist
Celoxica to produce a PCI Express-based accelerator.
This collaboration will see Celoxica's acceleration technology
implemented in Intel’s London-based fasterLAB facility, which
targets simulation of FSI and HPC workloads.
Technically it uses an 8-lane PCI Express interface to Xilinx
FPGAs to support 4 Gigabit Ethernet SFPs for low latency
acceleration of financial protocol handling.
“The area of market data is at the forefront of the latency
drive, plus the need to integrate with core applications in the
trading, risk and compliance space of the front office. This calls
for a collaborative approach to technology in order to test the
appropriate combinations in the infrastructure,” said Nigel
Woodward, director financial services at Intel.
Test have achieved latency of less than 10 microseconds,
processing market data from ISE, OPRA and ITCH at over 3 million
messages per second.
“Our collaboration with Intel has been strengthened since the
Celoxica re-launch into financial services at the beginning of the
year,” said Lee Staines, CEO of Celoxica.
The Celoxica Accelerator for PCI Express will be available on
Intel platforms from October, with the first supported high volume
feeds being OPRA, ISE, NASDAQ ITCH, CME, ICE, NYSE Arca and
Eurex.