LOL pitchforks. Jesus christ you people really need to pull your head out of your asses and learn how to trade instead of looking at a chart and seeing things that aren't there.
Cloud server is just bs marketing hype. For Gods sake I wish someone would kill these morons who come up with these words just to make it sound new. Its just distributed computing via remote procedure calls people!
Trading tick charts is for idiots. You will never get synchronization issues right. What is so hilarious is that there are so many traders out there who are trading what they see on the charts and its wrong.
Dumbasses who use technical indicators on tick charts is even more funny.
Just how...
Sometimes it isn't about dazzling everyone with hardware bullshit and going hardcore like some people do.
Its about really thinking long and hard about the problem at hand and THEN spending money if you need it on the hardware to speed up your solution.
You may just find that building a...
You don't have tick data. You have 1 minute data of 3000 stocks. Tick data is different than 1 minute data.
Take each of the 3000 symbols and create one database per symbol or table per symbol. Call each database/table something like CSCO1Min, DELL1Min, etc.
Then if you want to create 15...
No shit. If you don't half a fucking brain you start out within a budget with specs allowing expansion and then add as you go.
You don't read very well do you. The guy says he's on a limited budget. I recomended to him a motherboard that obviously can expand dumbass.
I said to get 4GB for...
I definitely would go Ubuntu 64 bit with AMD 965 x4 Phenom II and 4GB ram and 1TB SATA for starters. Use MySql Community server 64 and if too slow ptut 16GB RAM and use Mysql 7.0 Cluster.
Although not a fair comparison, I'm running AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3 GB RAM, 10yr 30min data on Win XP...