In article <[email protected]>,
ScottyG <[email protected]> wrote:
>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.
>
>We will have servers located in London, New York and Chicago. There will be a
>dedicated resilient link between London and New York.
What OS(es) are these servers running? There are very few (if any) ways for
an "application" to query a piece of hardware (driver) in near the .1 usecond
timeframe. And depending on the OS (Windows), you can't be guaranteed to do
anything in that timeframe.
>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.
>
>Has anyone had any experience doing this? Can anyone suggest how to achieve
>this accuracy?
How do you record receipt of your "trades"? They probably arrive in your
server(s) via a network connection or dedicated communications link? Just
the processing of the communcations could take longer than .1 useconds.
>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.
As others have pointed out, you first need to come up with a practical set
of requirements. Ask your people where they came up with this .1us number
and what they think that will solve?
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