Pictures of your trading stations

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by seasideheights, Jan 8, 2005.

  1. Sterling Trader Pro
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    Intel i7-3930k
    8gb Ram
    Corair 248gb ssd
    3 - GTX 550Ti's
    30" Dell 3007
    27" Acer Led
    3 - 24" Acer lcd
     
    #3741     May 14, 2012
  2. Ghetto but hey......

    No client computers are shown and the left handed mouse is because i was in an accident last week & temp one handed.

    http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/...e/?action=view&current=IMG-20120515-00176.jpg

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    still ironically have one of my most powerful machines as my desktop :)

    this is why my mouse has a lefty slot:

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    other "real work" pics:

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    ^^^ upgrading primary RAID cards (that means I'm upgrading the spinny drive you might be working on as you view my pics.)



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    ^^^ pos box that came from ebay. not in good enough condition to deliver to client.

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    ^^^ was running short. also ebay crap that needs returning but i had to show how exciting my life is...

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    ^^^^

    thats where some of the lame burn-in & magic is done. Density has increased & power consumption has decreased... down to $400/month from ~$450 in electric utilities.
     
    #3742     May 15, 2012
  3. copa8

    copa8

    the result of spanking the monkey too much? :D
     
    #3743     May 15, 2012
  4. Is that a Nanex feed on the left monitor? What are you feeding it into ;) NO standard software I know of accepts it (except TradeLink).
     
    #3744     May 15, 2012
  5. Yes that is a NxCore feed - good eye!

    Its on a VM right now & setup as a development/testing rig while i finish the burn-in & load testing on their 10TB array for tick data.

    10TB for less than $2k inside a workstation chassis is pretty badass... especially filling it up with data :)
     
    #3745     May 16, 2012
  6. NxUser. Do you get the high precision clock mode in a VM? WHen I did VM for Nx it always complained and the clock jumped - could be the AMD processors I used there.

    What do you feed Nx into? Which software is receiving it? ;)
     
    #3746     May 16, 2012
  7. sorry that picture was legit (hand in cast) so slow & poor typing.

    the VM is essentially to pull historical data. we have a 25ms precision on "js" tapes if that makes any sense.

    The end result will be a 10TB box running a SSD for OS so the RAID array stays pretty isolated. we chose Windows 2008 Enterprise R2 over a Linux/Ubuntu+WINE solution.

    When you say "precision clock mode" what exactly do you mean? We are not doing any multicast so all single point & latency can be delayed.
     
    #3747     May 16, 2012
  8. Ah, historical data - me too, pulling another tape, though.

    The client turns into precision mode after some time when the closk on the machine is stable and then keeps the machine clock in sync with a couple of ms to the nanex clock ;) It can give you a very stable clock + a good indication of network jitter with that.

    Try looking at an adapted 6805q controller if that raid turns too slow for you - that thing can use up to 4 SSD as read AND write cache and has some pretty good logic attached to determine what to cache. Can make a HUGH difference in performance.
     
    #3748     May 16, 2012
  9. easymon1

    easymon1

    Why not dump exhaust heat outdoors?
     
    #3749     May 17, 2012
  10. Wisdom from a horticulturist.....

    Or small indoor A/C unit vented outside. Thats what I have to do.
     
    #3750     May 17, 2012