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It created White Rabbit[0], a system for sub nanosecond time keeping precision over ethernet. It is now used in many financial exchanges to ensure fairness for
by posnet 5y ago
It created White Rabbit[0], a system for sub nanosecond time keeping precision over ethernet. It is now used in many financial exchanges to ensure fairness for market participants. [1]
(0): https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/ https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/
(1): https://www.eurex.com/ex-en/support/initiatives/archive/high-precision-time-white-rabbit-pilot https://www.eurex.com/ex-en/support/initiatives/archive/high...
- Dylan16807 5y agoThat sounds like it has very marginal value to me. What's the problem it's solving in financial exchanges that you can't do with pedestrian cables and techniques inside a datacenter? Let alone a wild and crazy solution like only processing orders once per second. I'm especially looking at where it says "typical distances of 10 km between network elements"