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.