Sun Compute Cluster

About This Solution

Designed for the unique needs of today's trading floors, it delivers extremely low latency for applications such as compute-intensive, real-time risk analysis. Powered by Sun Blade servers and Gigabit Ethernet switching, it lets you consolidate multiple trading applications onto a single box for high performance trading.

The Sun Compute Cluster for Financial Services offers the flexiblity to choose between multiple configurations of storage: network attach or direct attach based on the application workload and the latency requirements. This storage infrastructure is provided by Sun's innovative Open Storage Platforms designed to provide performance at much lower costs than traditional storage options.

Real Business Issues

• Growing volumes of market data
• Algorithmic (machine-based) trading requirements
• Large capacities of shared storage
• New trading regulations
• Data integrity with full accountability
• Pressure to reduce the cost per transaction
• Real-time processing with ultra-low latency
• Real-time security

Real Businesses Results

• Run multiple applications at faster speeds
• Reduce overall latency at a lower TCO
• Low-latency virtualization and consolidation
• Open source software, industry-standard hardware
• Sun Open Storage: save up to 90% on storage costs
• Easy scalability for fast growth
• Demonstrated capability: 700,000 messages per second with an end-to-end latency less than 1.5 milliseconds in a 1 GbE blades environment