ScottyG <[email protected]> writes: >Hello.
>The company I am working for needs to be able to record timestamps in a >trading >system logs down to a .1 microsecond accuracy. I think you misheard. .1 microsecond accuracy is impossible on a compter. Those servers cannot log to that accuracy. The trading system logs cannot be written on that kind of time frame. >We will have servers located in London, New York and Chicago. There will be a >dedicated resilient link between London and New York. >Searches on the web have made claims that NTP can achieve this accuracy. >Unfortunately the sales rep for the NTP server we looked at told me that the >best I >could expect is 2-5 ms synchronization across servers. By equiping each with a GPS receiver, you can get down to about 10 microseconds. >Has anyone had any experience doing this? Can anyone suggest how to achieve >this accuracy? Sorry, but the specification is idiocy. >We do have some budget but this but if I need to spend a whole lot on this I >need >to get in front of my management with the reasons. Maybe if you are willing to throw 10 million at it, you MIGHT be able to get there. >Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions you can give me. >Scott >-- >--------------------------------- --- -- - >Posted with NewsLeecher v3.95 Beta 3 >Web @ http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet >------------------- ----- ---- -- - _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
