Itanium powers 600X improvement on Tokyo Stock Exchange
Fujitsu, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), and Intel have all recently announced the deployment of the TSE’s next-generation trading system called “arrowhead.” An increase in online trading volumes and institutional investor algorithm-based trading was the primary driver for the new system that now ranks alongside the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange as the most advanced in the world.
The arrowhead system was designed for for speed, enabling millisecond-level market access that allows increased liquidity and new styles of trading; bedrock reliability built on triply-redundant servers; scalability, with double the capacity needed for peak volumes; and transparency, expanding quote feeds and real-time access to data. Underlying the system is the innovative combination of Itanium-based PRIMEQUEST servers from Fujitsu, the Linux operating system, and a combination of middleware with advanced technological features and functional enhancements.
After eighteen months of preparation and testing, the TSE switched off their mainframe and went live with arrowhead — demonstrating a 600 times increase in performance.
Read the news release from Fujitsu.
Read more about the Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 500A Itanium-based servers.