On 2/16/12 5:03 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/high-speed-trading/ > > "Below the 950-millisecond level, where computerized trading occurs so > quickly that human traders can't even react, no fewer than 18,520 > crashes and spikes occurred." > > Anyone who has managed a network knows that when you look at your > MRTG/Cacti graphs at 5min, 10min ,15min intervals - all looks well. > Start looking at 1sec intervals and you will see spikes that hit 100% of > capacity - even on networks running at 25% average utilization. > > I guess trading and networking do have many unseen similarities. >
Some complementary information I read a few weeks ago: http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/critical-cyber-vulnerabilities-found-financial-system http://www.cpacket.com/latency http://www.cpacket.com/download/Introduction%20to%20Network%20Latency%20Engineering.pdf Regards, --Jason
