TradersStudio Multicore PreReleased

That’s a really interesting article and I had no idea that a Xeon would be poor for trading performance. I would have figured that the server class of processors would be the best for computation.
 
Gyles said:
That’s a really interesting article and I had no idea that a Xeon would be poor for trading performance. I would have figured that the server class of processors would be the best for computation.
More...

Another factor is that AMD chips are slower for their scale. A 16 core AMD chip runs like 10-11 virtual cores on Intel based chips because they don't have hyperthreading. Hypertheading gives about 1/2 of the performance for the virtual cores. so a quad core Intel chips runs at least as fast as a 6 core AMD for a well designed applications. This is without the fact that Intel chips can be overclocked. This almost forces almost 2-1 core ratio to get the same performance.
 
That's very interesting. I thought AMD chips could be overclocked though as well? However, even if you could overclock them they still couldn'€™t match Intel'€™s performance with hyperthreading I suppose.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Gyles said:
That’s very interesting – I thought AMD chips could be overclocked though as well? However, even if you could overclock them they still couldn't match Intel’s performance with hyperthreading I suppose.
More...

Take a look at this

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/overclocked_cpus.html

You can see the top i7 is half the price of the fastest Xeon and only 20% slower. Also there are i7 which are 75% of the speed of the fastest Xeon and only 25% of the price.
You can see that even the 8 core AMD is 25% slower than the upper end i7 chips.
 
Interesting breakdown of the CPU numbers. Hadn'€™t really looked at that before. I'€™ll keep that in mind if I purchase a new system. It'€™s tempting to go AMD for price, but maybe it'€™s worth going Intel.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Gyles said:
Interesting breakdown of the CPU numbers. Hadn’t really looked at that before. I’ll keep that in mind if I purchase a new system. It’s tempting to go AMD for price, but maybe it’s worth going Intel.
More...


I am currently working on a equity system and need to optimize it on 100's of stocks. Have a low end quad core , only six months old, got it at Wal-Mart on black Friday for Windows 8 testing and my six core I7, which was purchased in 2011. Believe it or not the six core high end machine which is 3 years old is 6X faster than the low end quad core using TradersStudio Multicore.
Many customers have asked about quad core computers and I tried to explain to them not all computers are a like. For example the difference in benchmark multicore performance between the quad core AMD and Intel chips I saw in a published benchmark is 2.8X.
 
The product is just about ready,just address a few issues and updating the data that ships with it. We are also completely redesigning our web site. I plan to have a big roll out for Labor day weekend.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top