2011/9/28 Martin Sustrik <[email protected]> > On 09/28/2011 09:00 AM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > 2011/9/28 Noospheer Team<[email protected]>: > >> A couple weeks back there was talk of integrating PTP into 0MQ for A/V > >> synchronization purposes. I imagine such an effective timing system > >> would be also useful for making 0MQ HPC friendlier. > > The question is what exactly would the PTP be used for? > > Time synchronization is extremely important in trading. PTP is a standard in this area. You can synchronize with NTP servers with an accuracy of 1 ms. With PTP synchronization accuracy is 10 us. Unfortunately, for greater accuracy requires a very fast network.
best r <http://www.fsmlabs.com/products/rttimesync-for-financial-services1/> egards, daniel > Timestamping the messages? If so, you can use PTP to synchronise the > clocks and timestamp messages using standard time functions on top of > 0MQ -- we've already used this system for precise benchmarking and > tuning of 0MQ. > > > Before discussing further I'd like to note that PTP (IEEE1588) is > > covered by several software patents. This could be a no-go issue for > > some interested parties. > > Yes. However, if used on top of 0MQ as described above it's not an problem. > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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