Programmable hardware with Andy Ray
Signals and Threads
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How Do You Think About Network Interface Cards?
The focus for us is a round network packet processing. I'd be surprised if we end up writing an f b j design that isn't at some fundamental level, connected to a ten or 25 gig network and processing packets. A platform that we've been working with for the last year or so is basically like a pecial network inter face card with an f p j on it. We've got full standard driver layers for this card, but we can also put our custom logic in it. The background fact about trading that justifies all this is that trading systems have to consume an enormous amount of market data That comes from a bunch of different exchanges at shockingly high rates.
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