Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive) has tested its message transport technology Aeron in a cloud environment and has reportedly achieved a sub-20 microsecond performance with throughput of 4.7 million messages/second.
These results “meet or exceed” the demands of capital markets organisations considering a move to the cloud, the firm claims.
Running on Google Cloud infrastructure, Aeron is an open-source, low-latency message transport and cluster technology used to build trading systems with “microsecond latency and millisecond recovery”.
Completed in collaboration with Google Cloud, the testing showed that Aeron allows capital markets firms to build low-latency trading systems in the cloud, removing dependence on traditional on-premises infrastructure, Adaptive said. Testing took place with a range of Google Cloud services leveraging C3 instance types, placement policies and a variety of storage options.
Aeron consists of Aeron Transport for messaging, and Aeron Cluster for zero downtime, 24/7 trading systems. Aeron Premium provides an additional set of performance, security, fault-tolerance and recovery components.
Matt Barrett, co-founder and CEO at Adaptive, said: “The future of finance is rooted in cloud technology. While workloads have migrated to the cloud over the past decade, some have doubted whether its latency and fault tolerance can match that of on-premises solutions – our joint testing on Google Cloud, proves that this is the case.”
“Using Aeron, we have showcased the cloud’s capabilities. For institutions aiming to develop cutting-edge trading technology, the combination of Aeron and Google Cloud not only produces scalable, low-latency trading systems but also manages substantial data volumes without compromising fault tolerance,” Barrett concluded.
Reported technical highlights from the testing include:
- When assessing latency of its messaging component, the team measured a round trip time of 57 microseconds for Aeron open source, dropping to 18 microseconds with Aeron Premium. Throughput increased from 800,000 messages/second to 4,700,000 messages/second, a 6-fold improvement, when using the Premium components. (Aeron results quoted relate to a round trip time at the 99th percentile of a 288 byte message and a rate of 100,000 messages/second. Testing was done using Aeron 1.43.0 in Google Cloud’s US Central Zone.)
- Aeron Cluster for zero downtime, 24/7 systems achieved latency of 109 microseconds with the open-source edition, dropping to 36 microseconds with the premium edition. Throughput of over 250,000 messages/second was maintained while staying under a one millisecond threshold. This compares with over 2,200,000 million messages/second with Aeron Premium – an 8.8 fold improvement. Aeron Cluster combined with Google Cloud offers a new standard in automated failover.
- Aeron Premium uses components for kernel bypass, which reduces packet processing overhead resulting in improved network transport speeds.
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