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by drallison 5676 days ago
Maxeler Technologies (http://www.maxeler.com)supplies turnkey FPGA-based acceleration that supports high speed trading with trading latencies on the order of a few microseconds. Software development for the accelerated platform begins with a client's "known to work" proprietary code, which Maxeler accelerates. When latency is an important performance factor, the Maxeler trading server needs to be collocated in the exchange.