Platform Integration is as important as either software or hardware, where do this?

August 16th, 2014, 01:29 PM

Is there a place in futures.io (formerly BMT) where Trading Platforms Integration is discussed?

Explanation: The software/hardware integration is just as important as either one, the software (eSignal, IRT/MD, etc.), or the hardware (PC, Laptop) dual chip, quad chip.

For example, this year I put into production a new PC, with an ASUS 1150 board and Intel quad CPU, and enough memory for trading. After putting it to work with NT7 (Ninja), I noticed a big lag in my DOM, something I never saw in my dual quad 2008 vintage machine). If anything I thought the new machine would be blazing fast. So far it has been a dog. Over several months of insistent exchanges with NT7 support, I found out NT7 is a single thread application. My Intel chip was making 8 threads out of the 4 CPUs it had. Translation: NT7 was "squeezed" into one of those 8 threads and the system was spending all of its time swapping core pieces of NT7 to make it run. I went into the BIOS and killed the virtual threads, reducing the chip to 4 CPUs. It still a dog with NT7, meaning the lag is still there, instead of 6 seconds, it is down to 2,3 seconds depending on how fast the market is. Running OFA in NT7 makes it worse, but I am an OFA-using trader. I get other unexplained problems that has forced me to load and reload NT7 more times than a handful.

So, going back to my original question, if there is no forum for platform integration, where do we discuss these issues?

Thanks.

Platform Integration is as important as either software or hardware, where do this?

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Platform Integration is as important as either software or hardware, where do this?