• Contact
  • Register
    (If you're a human, don't change the following field)
    Your first name.
    (If you're a human, don't change the following field)
    Your first name.

    Enter your email above, then click "Sign Up" to join the STAC mail list and (optionally) register to access materials on the site. Click for terms.

Posted September 8, 2024 by jack.gidding

Proposed Test Harness Reviews

In this thread, we will post Test Harnesses designs for STAC-T1 configurations that firms intend to audit. Please post commentary and questions during a one week period following the policy posted at https://stacresearch.com/test-harness-review-procedure 

Comments

Posted on September 8, 2024 by jack.gidding

A vendor is staging a STAC-T1 test for audit using their Tick-to-Trade appliance. As per the policy, the harness setup is documented here for community review. The attached file describes:

  • The setup and diagram of the test harness All connections in the harness are optical fiber. 
  • Timestamping in the SUT is performed by the Vendor's Measurement Product. A validation will be conducted using a SolarFlare NIC during loopback test to ensure that the measurements are comparable.
  • A Bill of Materials to document all components in the harness setup.

Please provide any comments or questions as a reply to this post within the next week. 

File: 
Proposed STAC-T1 Test Harness Diagram and BOM.pdf

STAC-T1 consists of benchmarks for measuring tick-to-trade performance of low-latency trading systems, including all the logic necessary to ingest and interpret market data ("ticks"), and create and send execution messages such as orders and cancellations (loosely, "trades").

Read more