LSE smashes world record trade speed with Linux

[Baron]

The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times.

The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on the group’s main stock exchange. The LSE had long been criticised on speed and reliability, grappling with trading speeds of several hundred microseconds.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news...e-speed-with-linux/?cmpid=sbycombinatorrplant

 

[propseeker]

while linux is definitely getting hyped here (not without good reason), the lse issues had less to do with os type vs incredibly idiotic architecture decisions.

a quote from another article:

[The LSE runs] a custom set of C# and .NET programs, which was created by Microsoft and Accenture, the global consulting firm. Its back-end databases, believe it or not, run on Microsoft SQL Server 2000.......... The goal was to maintain sub-ten millisecond response times. In short, it's meant to be a real-time system.

those last two lines are golden.

anyway, even just making a db change would have made a huge difference.

good for a laugh, thanks for posting that.