Low Latency Applications Benefit from Intel 5500 Chips
Apr 8th, 2009 by admin
“Developers of low latency trading and market data applications are likely to benefit from new Intel Xeon 5500 Series microprocessors introduced today. Based on Intel’s new Nehalem architecture, the chips are expected to offer much improved performance and less power consumption compared to current chips, especially in the areas of multi-threading, memory access, interconnect technology for co-processors and XML processing.
“The London Stock Exchange recognises the importance of both low latency and latency consistency in the operation of efficient markets. We make extensive ongoing use of the Intel fasterLAB in order to evolve our core business applications and to test the effect of processor-level innovation. We have been able to see the immediate impact of the move to 45nm and scaling to the multi-core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series and beyond. The fasterLAB – being equipped with advanced testing facilities and Intel engineering expertise – is a significant asset to our ongoing software development programs,” said LSE CTO Robin Paine, in an Intel statement.
Today’s announcement included a dozen dual- and quad-core Xeon chips (codenamed Gainstown), based on a 45nm manufacturing process. Processor speeds range from 1.86 GHz to 3.2 GHz, with power consumption from 80W up to 130W. Chips also vary by quantity of Level 3 cache and speed of the interconnect bus. Chips with six and eight cores are also in the pipeline.”
