GIGABYTE Releases New Systems Designed for HFT

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R161-R12: https://b2b.gigabyte.com/High-Frequency-Trading-System/R161-R12-rev-100

R161-R13: https://b2b.gigabyte.com/High-Frequency-Trading-System/R161-R13-rev-100 

Taipei, Taiwan, 22nd November 2018 – In the world of high-frequency trading (HFT), financial institutions need to deploy the fastest available hardware in order to mitigate latency between trader workstations and exchanges. Shaving microseconds off server response times can often be the difference in millions of dollars in revenue. GIGABYTE brings our precision engineering to a new line of ultra-fast, low latency & low jitter systems designed to meet these demanding performance requirements while maintaining high reliability and stability. 

The R161-R12and R161-R13 are 1U rackmount servers with an Intel® X299 chipset and LGA 2066 socket for an Intel® Core™ i9 / i7 / i5 X-Series processor. Designed for extreme overclocking, the R161-R12 features a high performance Asetek ServerLSL™ (Server Level Sealed Loop) liquid cooling system and modified BIOS. The fully self-contained liquid cooling system makes possible to maximize CPU clock speeds with no additional data center infrastructure required – the R161-R12 can be installed in the same racks with air cooled servers. Performance wise, the R161-R12 using an i9-7980XE (Extreme Edition) processor can be reliably overclocked to 4.4GHz using AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) or up to 4.6GHz without using AVX, and an i9-7900 processor can be reliably overclocked to up to 4.7GHz.

Meanwhile, the R161-R13 has been created as a cost-efficient variant using an air cooling system instead, and does not support overclocking.

Memory wise, both R161-R12and R13 feature eight UDIMM slots supporting four channels of Non-ECC DDR4 memory, with a memory speed of up to 2666MHz (1 DIMM per channel) or 2400MHz (2 DIMMS per channel), and a total memory capacity of up to 128GB (16GB x 8 DIMMS). Memory can also be reliably overclocked to at least 3200MHz.

For storage capacity, the R161-R12 features four 2.5” hot-swap HDD / SSD drive trays located in the front of the unit: 2 x hot-swap hybrid (U.2 NVMe or SATA/SAS) drives and 2 x hot-swap SATA/SAS drives, while the R161-R13 increases capacity from the R161-R12 by adding another pair of hot-swap SATA/SAS drive bays at the front. In addition, both systems feature dual onboard M.2 slots (PCIe Gen3.0 x4) for additional ultra-fast storage devices.

Apart from dual onboard 1GbE networking ports, the R161-R12 and R13 both include two low-profile PCIe Gen3.0 x16 slots (via a riser card) in the rear to install high speed networking cards for increased throughput. 

And the R161-R12 provides mission critical reliability with 1+1 redundant dual 1100W 80 PLUS Platinum power supply units, while R161-R13 features a single 850W 80 PLUS Platinum power supply unit. Both systems feature a dedicated MLAN port and Aspeed AST2500 controller for remote management.

Both these systems have been designed using GIGABYTE’s renowned engineering expertise developed over decades for both consumer motherboards and enterprise systems, and are built using the highest quality passive components. They offer a perfect solution for your ultra-low latency application requirements. 

For information on where to buy the R161-R12 or R13, please visit: http://www.gigabyte.com/Buy