Melbourne, Apr 17, 2015 – XENON has a strong track record in providing innovative High Frequency Trading (HFT) server solutions to leading firms in global financial markets. Successfully tried and tested in XENON labs, the eXtreme HFT server line has now met and matched real-world HFT conditions for paying customers across Australia, Asia and the Americas.
XENON’s eXtreme HFT servers deliver a latency level greater than 30% lower than standard off-the-shelf servers, providing a competitive edge to their clients in a sector that runs on razor-thin, massive-yield returns.
These servers solutions are:
- Designed specifically for low latency trading and this is achieved by selecting best of breed components
- Designed for maximum performance due to CPU and safely over-clocked processors and memory
- Tested extensively for durability to ensure 24 x 7 operating time
- A scalable architecture with predictable performance that adjusts to meet business requirements
- Equipped to handle extremely volatile periods of market activity without loss
- Backed by 24 x 7 Global Onsite Warranty Support
Moreover, the eXtreme HFT server range also represents the first in a pedigree of upcoming, low-latency HFT servers due to be rolled-out to market by XENON. New additions to the eXtreme HFT server family will deliver more performance, more cores and faster clock speeds in the industry leading 1U form factor.
Specifications for eXtreme HFT servers:
| SYSTEM | Radon Solo RX880 | Radon Solo RX980 | Radon Duo RX1880 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | |  | |
| CPU | Single Intel® Core™ i7-4790K (4 cores 8MB Smart Cache) | Single Intel® Core™ i7-5960X (8 cores 20MB Smart Cache) | Dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600v3 Rx1880-1: Dual E5-2643v3 (6 cores 20MB Smart Cache) Rx1880-2: Dual E5-2687Wv3 (10 cores 25MB Smart Cache) |
| Memory | 2x 8GB DDR3 UDIMM Expandable to 32GB DDR3 | 4x 8GB DDR4 UDIMM Expandable to 64GB DDR4 | 8x 8GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM Expandable to 256GB DDR4 |
| CPU Cooling | 1U Liquid Cooling | 1U Liquid Cooling | 2x 1U Passive Cooling |
| I/O Expansion | 1 PCIe 3.0 x8 (Low Profile, half-length) | 1 PCIe 3.0 x 16 (Full-height, half-length) | 2 PCIe 3.0 x 16 (Full-height, full-length), 1 PCIe 3.0 x8 (Low-profile), 1 PCIe 3.0 x8 (SAS3) |
| Storage Expansion | 8 hot-swap 2.5” drive bays | 8 hot-swap 2.5” drive bays | 10 hot-swap 2.5” drive bays Optional 2-drive NVMe SSD support |
| Storage Controller | Integrated Intel 8-port SATA3 6Gb/s | Integrated Intel 8-port SATA3 6Gb/s | Optional Integrated SAS3 LSI 3108 (CacheVault Supercap option) |
| I/O | 4x USB 3.0 (Rear), One VGA port | 4x USB 3.0 (Rear), One VGA port | 2x USB 3.0 (Rear), One VGA port, 1 COM port |
| LAN | Single GbE LAN with IPMI | Dual GbE LAN with IPMI | Quad GbE LAN,1x IPMI |
| PSU | 500W Platinum Redundant | 500W Platinum Redundant | 750W Platinum Redundant |
| Management | IPMI with iKVM | IPMI with iKVM | IPMI with iKVM |
| Power | 84W | 140W | Rx1880-1: 135W Rx1880-2: 160W |
| Base Frequency (CPU) | 4 GHz | 3 GHz | Rx1880-1: 3.4 GHz Rx1880-2: 3.1 GHz |
| Hyper-Speed Frequency (CPU) | 4.7GHz (4 active cores) ~5GHz (1 active core) | 4.3GHz (8 active cores) ~4.8GHz (1 active core) | Rx1880-1: 3.74 GHz (6 active cores) 3.85 GHz (1 active core) Rx1880-2: 3.32 GHz (10 active cores) 3.64 GHz (1 active core) |
| Power (Memory) | 1.5V | 1.2V | 1.2V |
| Base Frequency (Memory) | 1600 MHZ | 2133 MHZ | 2133 MHZ |
| Hyper-Speed Frequency (Memory) | 2400 MHZ | 2400 MHZ | 2218 MHZ |
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