Sun Microsystems has joined The Securities Technology
Analysis Center (Stac) Benchmark Council, to help define
standardperformance metrics for tradingtechnologies.
Sun has become an Innovation Sponsor for the Manhattan-based
Stac Lab into the bargain.
The Stac Lab is a research facility where end-user firms can
evaluate new technologies under simulated trading conditions.
It contains advanced load-generation mechanisms, precise timing
equipment, market data and test tools pre-integrated with many of
the products to be tested.
On the Stac Benchmark Council, Sun will contribute to
specifications under consideration by its participating trading
firms.
The Council is a group of trading firms and vendors who are
defining industry-standard ways of measuring latency, capacity,
power efficiency, and other key performance attributes of solutions
used in the trading process.
Announced last September, the Council includes a number of
global trading firms including Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, and
HSBC.
