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Rapid Addition breach 70 million messages with 20 µs latency

Posted: 06 May 2009

Rapid Addition has announced that its FIX engine has processed 70 million messages with an average time of under 20 µs. The test was a sustained high volume FIX engine message parsing and transmission exercise. In the tests RA processed 99.9% of 70 million messages in under 30 µs and had a mean and median message processing time of about 19 µs with a standard deviation of 3.1 µs.

The tests were conducted on commodity hardware running .NET3.5 on Windows 2008.

• Over 70 million New Order Single messages with a size of 197 bytes were sent and received across 140 sessions running 2 threads over a 50 minute period

• An average 12,000 messages were processed per second with 190MB per minute sent and received on the network.

• Messages were fully validated

• Measurements were performed at the application and socket layers

• Garbage collection had no discernible impact over the run period

• No memory or thread leaks were detected

Toby Corballis, CEO of Rapid Addition said: "We welcome the recent developments in the low latency market, where we see a number of competitors and the market in general raising their game. At Rapid Addition we have always invested heavily in R&D and in working with our partners at Intel and Microsoft, enabling us to give our clients a truly competitive edge."

"Rapid Addition will shortly be making public its technical performance testing data and would welcome other vendors doing the same."

 

 

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