Insight for the Algorithmic Enterprise

STAC® provides technology research and testing tools based on standards developed by the STAC Benchmark™ Council,
a group that includes leading financial firms and other "algorithmic enterprises" as well as key technology vendors.

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STAC-A2 on Dell C4130 with 4 x P100 GPU
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STAC-M3 of kdb+ on Skylake-based Lenovo servers
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Spark with Levyx Xenon under STAC-A3
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HPE Overclocked Servers under STAC-N1

Latest News

STAC Report: STAC-A2 on Dell C4130 with 4 x P100 GPU

Highest throughput and efficiency for any publicly reported system to date

STAC Reports: kdb+ on Skylake-based Lenovo systems under STAC-M3

Skylake-based servers set multiple records in STAC-M3 Shasta benchmarks

STAC Report: Spark with Levyx Xenon under STAC-A3

32.7x the throughput of a larger Hadoop streaming cluster.

STAC Report: Spark Resource Managers, Phase 2

Spark throughput was highest when managed by IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark.

STAC Report: Latest STAC-A2 results on Dell C6320p & KNL

Highest throughput to date for a system with a single CPU, GPU, or other co-processor

STAC Report: kdb+ with Vexata NVMe flash array

Solution breaks more than half the records in both baseline and scale benchmarks

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Fall 2017 STAC Summits

The Fall 2017 STAC Summits are now open for registration:

STAC Summits bring innovative technologies face-to-face with important engineering challenges in finance like alpha generation, risk management, trade execution, regulatory compliance (including MiFID 2 time sync), and other business imperatives involving fast data, big data, and big compute.

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Recent Blogs

Posted August 7, 2016 by Peter Lankford

Some pics from Spring 2016 STAC Summits

It was great to see packed houses in London, Chicago, and New York at the STAC Summits this past May and June (in fact, there was 15% higher attendance by user firms than 2015!). For those who couldn’t make it, I thought I’d share a few photos.
Posted April 22, 2016 by Peter Lankford

Timestamps are not clocks

Focusing RTS 25 compliance exclusively on clock sync is like preparing your child for an entrance exam by simply ensuring she has sharp pencils. Necessary? Yes. Sufficient? Hardly.

Posted November 18, 2015 by Peter Lankford

Yes, ESMA, even MiFID 2 event logging needs clarity

Last week, ESMA said its MiFID II rules may take an extra year to implement. Steven Maijoor, ESMA's chair, said that "building of some complex IT systems can only really take off when the final details are firmly set in the [regulations]." I don't know which part of the 552-page regs he's referring to, but based on just two little sections called RTS 6 and RTS 25, I can see what he means.
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Hot Topics

Time Sync & Event Capture

Complying--and proving you comply--with new regulations in the EU and US.

Big Data

Use cases, new technologies, benchmarks, and more.

Ultra-fast networking

New entrants stir things up while incumbent vendors enhance their products

Computational Finance

Accelerating analytics, parallelizing code, getting more calculations per watt...

Tick Data & Backtesting

New hardware and software, debates over parallel file systems, and much more

PCIe Flash

New products, changing economics, new interfaces...