Pico has teamed with Intel to achieve 100Gbps sustained real-time processing for its market leading Corvil Analytics product which is used by the world’s largest banks, exchanges, quantitative hedge funds, electronic market makers and brokers to manage and analyze their network flow. Pico collaborated closely with Intel’s microprocessor team to leverage the new features and capabilities recently introduced in 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
“100Gbps network infrastructure is now in-demand to keep up with the recent surge in trade and market data volumes. Intel is a very important technology and business partner and the close collaboration with Pico key clients in our financial services lab has been critical to achieving the 100Gbps real-time analytics benchmark,” said Roland Hamann, CTO of Pico, in a statement.
Recently, Intel announced its latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named “Ice Lake”). With early-access to the new generation processors and close collaboration with the Intel team, Pico immediately experienced a 50% improvement in performance with no change in code or optimization. Pico further leveraged many new capabilities and features of these new processors to achieve even higher levels of performance improvement. Of particular note, was the ability to select critical code threads for specialized processor treatment, thereby efficiently eliminating many prior performance bottlenecks.