http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/11/24/numbers035/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Thu, 24 May 2012 14:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/11/24/numbers035/comment-page-1/#comment-341787 PowerSource » Blog Archive » High-frequency trading moves compute cycles out of the cloud Thu, 27 May 2010 17:27:26 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/11/24/numbers035/#comment-341787 [...] So I was interested to read about the upswing in high-frequency trading (HFT) and the premium it places on low-latency in server response times. Low-latency is so important that HFT firms place their servers at or near the trading venue. So rather than follow the cheap power to The Dalles, OR, as Google did, trading firms put their server farms right in the basement of the trading behemoths on Wall Street. From RedMonk’s blog: [...] [...] So I was interested to read about the upswing in high-frequency trading (HFT) and the premium it places on low-latency in server response times. Low-latency is so important that HFT firms place their servers at or near the trading venue. So rather than follow the cheap power to The Dalles, OR, as Google did, trading firms put their server farms right in the basement of the trading behemoths on Wall Street. From RedMonk’s blog: [...]

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