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Topic: Market data to multiple PCs on a LAN (2 messages, Page 1 of 1) |
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DBrubaker673 Posts: 55 Joined: Jul 18, 2007 |
Do you have any support in your API (or simply some advice) for using the API on more than one computer at a time? As you know, many professional traders use one computer for trading and another for charting. In my case, I’m crunching numbers so hard and so fast that the fastest PC I can reasonably buy can hardly keep up with the ticks, and I don’t want charting to slow down trading. Ideally I would be able to have several computers working at once. (Currently I use 3 fast PCs.)
I have written my own tcp client/server, also http client/server, so I can throw ticks from one PC to the others. But I’m hoping you have a better way… Thanks, Dale Dale |
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SergeK -Developer- Posts: 475 Joined: Jan 26, 2007 
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Sorry, but we don't have any support for this.
I believe in your case it's better to use mutiprocessor machine rather than a pc cluster, because network communications overhead kills the performance boost. Also I'd suggest to optimize your calculation algorithms, possible using SIMD techniques or even specialized hardware like NVIDIA Tesla. |
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