I've thought about this, and the answer is probably not for any real time trading platform. Storm is meant to be distributed across multiple nodes, and even if

I've thought about this, and the answer is probably not for any real time trading platform. Storm is meant to be distributed across multiple nodes, and even if they are different machines on the same hardware I think whatever communication system storm uses is going to be orders of magnitude slower than any direct memory bus. So if latency is your goal, you probably have to stick to tried and true, whatever that may be (GPU server farms?) However, I bet it'd be perfect for a market analytic systems, where it can scale to consume and create massive amounts of data in near real time. Maybe as a compliment to your latency sensitive system in some way. I bet nathan could answer better though.