STAC Report: Redline, Dell acceleration, STAC-T1.EMINI

At 8x market rate, mean tick-to-trade latency was 5.2 microseconds with a standard deviation of 1.2 microseconds.

5 June 2013 - New York

STAC has recently completed STAC-T1.EMINI™ "tick-to-trade" testing of the Redline InRush™ 3 Ticker Plant and Redline Execution Gateway software on a Dell PowerEdge R720 Server using Dell Processor Acceleration Technology (DPAT), two Intel Xeon E5-2690 processors, and a Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10GbE adapter.

At 8 times the recorded market rate, mean latency was just 5.2 microseconds with a standard deviation of just 1.2 microseconds.

The report is available here. Configuration details for the stack that was tested (exact hardware and software versions, OS configuration, core bindings, partitioning, etc.) are published in a separate STAC Configuration Disclosure, which is available to qualified STAC members at the same link.

To hear more about the products we tested, plan to attend the STAC Summit in Chicago or New York.

STAC-T1.EMINI requires the stack under test to both read incoming market data and create and transmit trade executions. Latency measurement is wire-to-wire, as data enters and exits the server. Corvil supplied the latency monitor in this test setup, while Datacom Systems supplied the optical tap.

On May 31, 2013, the STAC-T1 Working Group recommended that STAC-T1 be put forth for approval by the full STAC Benchmark Council as a standard benchmark. A vote is forthcoming.