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More HFT talk on Erlang RDMA networking for ultra lowest latency

(Last Updated On: April 5, 2016)

More HFT talk on Erlang RDMA networking for ultra lowest latency

Update talking info since the last few days for further HFT analysis

Some history:

https://quantlabs.net/blog/2014/12/c-secret-vendor-and-open-source-libraries-potentially-used-for-hft-environments-thanks-to-this-barclays-bank-presentation-video/

Erlang from Barclays Bank Go Big video with weaknesses including potential RDMA open source solution
Pros and cons are covered in the video below. The questions is, does this:

Adventures in HPC: RDMA and Erlang


Provide a solution or workaround satisfactorily?

https://github.com/MrStaticVoid/rdma_dist

Also, Goldman Sachs is confirmed using Erlang in their HFT environment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29

Learn more if Erlang can be used in an HFT environment

The video

http://www.informatix-sol.com/cloud.html

It’s getting increasing difficult to utilize these with conventional programming languages such as Java, C# or C++. The threading and mutex’s soon become a nightmare to code and to debug. We are finding that the concurrency of Erlang is a good fit for Cloud and we now use this by choice.

Click to access ScaleErlang2.pdf

https://nativecoding.wordpress.com/high-performance-gamefinance-tech-resources/

Netmap is commonly used in HFT as well as packet filtering applications. I believe Verisign is running some of the root DNS servers with netmap as well, getting millions of connections per second.

HFT user userland based IP stack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726185

Example libraries?

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/06/12/user-space-networking-fuels-nfv-performance

https://github.com/pkelsey/libuinet (from above Intel list)

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sangjin/2013/01/14/NUSE.html

Netmap setup

http://ytliu.info/blog/2014/05/28/netmap-setup

Intel DPDK

Click to access dpdk-packet-processing-ia-overview-presentation.pdf

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