New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

[Posted March 22, 2010 by corbet]

Red Hat has sent out a press release stating that the Tokyo Stock Exchange has built its next-generation trading system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "The new system aims to deliver a capacity of orders accepted per second ten times larger than that of TSE's previous trading platform. TSE has measured an impressive order response time of two milliseconds and an information distribution time of three milliseconds. In addition, the solution offers the flexibility to accommodate new trading rules, the ability to be scaled with jumps in system demand and trading growth and expanded security and reliability."

New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

Posted Mar 22, 2010 17:05 UTC (Mon) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link] (6 responses)

Wow, Itanium.

New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

Posted Mar 22, 2010 17:43 UTC (Mon) by dany (guest, #18902) [Link] (1 responses)

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v6) will not provide support for the Intel Itanium architecture"

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-23403

Yes, really interesting move by Tokyo Stock Exchange..

New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

Posted Mar 22, 2010 20:15 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

I don't know about the whole Itanium thing... but Redhat should be willing to be quite mercenary,
if they are smart. If TSE wants to use RH6 on Itanium I am sure that they have the money to
convince Redhat to make that happen.

New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

Posted Mar 22, 2010 19:02 UTC (Mon) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link] (3 responses)

Hang on, where does it say Itanium? Honest question.

I figured maybe the "PRIMERGY" platform mentioned is Itanium only, but no, they offer a bunch of Intel x86-64 servers.

New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

Posted Mar 22, 2010 19:45 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (2 responses)

PRIMEQUEST seems to be itanium only (according to wikipedia).

New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

Posted Mar 23, 2010 10:42 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link] (1 responses)

OK, so this customer buys PRIMEQUEST today, after probably a few years behind the scenes negotiations. And in 2015 they're still on PRIMEQUEST except, what do you know, it's now an x86-64 architecture. Fujitsu couldn't make that kind of nimble (well, nimble by big iron vendor standards) move with some grotty Unix fork maintained in house, but since this stuff all runs Linux it'll be no worse than the last time you bought a new PC.

Maybe that's crazy, but that's what I'd expect. Redhat says "some OEMs" which we'll take to include Fujitsu, get extended lifetime on IA64 RHEL to 2017. That's long enough to persuade the customer that they need new hardware, negotiate a price and get it done, I'd guess the depreciation is over 3-5 years even on this crazy expensive stuff.

New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHEL

Posted Mar 23, 2010 13:25 UTC (Tue) by danpb (subscriber, #4831) [Link]

> Redhat says "some OEMs" which we'll take to include Fujitsu, get extended
> lifetime on IA64 RHEL to 2017

Yep, Fujitsu are part of the Advanced Mission-Critical Program which gives upto a 10 year support lifetime on major RHEL releases:

http://www.redhat.com/promo/mc_program/
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/fujitsu-m...