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Press release Uppsala, Sweden, September 1 2008: Acumem, a provider of intelligent software for single- and multi-core environments has closed a deal with Swedish financial services ISV, Pantor Engineering , where all programmers within Pantor will get access to Acumem SlowSpotter Pro.
Pantor Engineering provides advanced products and services for building and monitoring transaction systems. Its application server, ORDO is able to process, translate and route orders and market data with a sub-millisecond latency while providing a throughput of hundreds of thousand messages per second. In low-latency trading, being faster than the competition gives you the opportunity to act first on incoming market data messages. One class of trading strategies is based on acting upon a new market situation before someone else. Consequently, trading software vendors compete on their ability to design for performance and to optimize their implementations. Acumem‘s technology allows programmers to optimize their own–or others’–code for the multi-core paradigm shift hence enables owners of systems and applications to get the best performance from their system. The target users of the tools are programmers, both optimization experts and non-expert, whereas the customers and people benefitting from the results are also found among System owners, Development Managers, Performance Evaluators, Benchmarks teams, etc.. Through the identification of SlowSpots™, Acumem’s tools help programmers to go directly to the parts of the code where improvement potential exists without any need to go through thousands of lines of code and vast amounts of data. Acumem SlowSpotter™ has proven to increase throughput in many applications by a factor of five, improving general scalability, saving processor cycles and decreasing power consumption. “We are very happy to welcome Pantor Engineering to join the group of Acumem customers. Being an ISV in the financial sector with very high demand on application performance, Pantor is an important reference in one of our most interesting industry sectors”, says Mats Hovmoller, CEO at Acumem. “We are particularly happy that Pantor sees the value our technology can bring to all of their developers.” “To build the mental model required to understand how to design efficient data structures and algorithms for modern processors, it is highly relevant to use a tool like SlowSpotter that explains how your code utilizes the memory system” says Anders Furuhed, CTO at Pantor Engineering. “At Pantor we use SlowSpotter to quickly gain a thorough understanding of code performance qualities. We also use SlowSpotter on a regular basis to alert us of harmful code and to quickly catch performance regressions. It improves performance work productivity by offering unique insight into these problems.”
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About Pantor Engineering Pantor is a Swedish software company that provides advanced products and services for building and monitoring transaction systems. Pantor was involved in the original design of the FAST Protocol and Rolf Andersson is currently a co-chair of the Market Data Optimization Working Group of FIX Protocol Ltd. For more information, visit www.pantor.com.
About Acumem Acumem is a provider of intelligent software which analyzes and optimizes the computing performance in single- and multi-core environments. Acumem contributes to their customers’ success in maximizing the benefits of multi-core technology, achieving the full potential of their systems. Acumem has partnership with leading companies in the multi-core market such as HP, Sun and AMD. Acumem is a privately held company based in Uppsala, Sweden with sales office in Boston, USA. www.acumem.com
About SlowSpotter SlowSpotter identifies an application’s slowspots, i.e., parts of the code which can be improved to run faster. For each slowspot, its location in the source code is identified, fixes for how it can be avoided is suggested and its overall importance for application improvement is presented. Through a user friendly User Interface hands on advice is given to the programmer on how to solve the performance issues identified. |
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