Friday, March 04, 2011
Towards Picosecond Trading
Just when you thought high-speed cash equities trading could not get any faster, trading geeks have thrown a new concept into the mix: the picosecond.
The potential value of millisecond, or indeed a picosecond, was vividly demonstrated during a particularly bloody period on Black Friday, October 10, 2008, when the UK market plummeted at a hair-raising £250m a second.
Want to trade faster? Go to Antarctica
Google filed a patent for a floating offshore data centre, while 2007 technology firm Sun Microsystems unveiled plans to build a data centre in an abandoned coal mine.
BAD HARDWARE: Our computer clocks are still running at nanosecond levels. Picoseconds are 1000 shorter time periods. Picoseconds might be of interest using quantum computing technology.
The potential value of millisecond, or indeed a picosecond, was vividly demonstrated during a particularly bloody period on Black Friday, October 10, 2008, when the UK market plummeted at a hair-raising £250m a second.
Want to trade faster? Go to Antarctica
Google filed a patent for a floating offshore data centre, while 2007 technology firm Sun Microsystems unveiled plans to build a data centre in an abandoned coal mine.
BAD HARDWARE: Our computer clocks are still running at nanosecond levels. Picoseconds are 1000 shorter time periods. Picoseconds might be of interest using quantum computing technology.
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