/blog/ en yodaiken@fsmlabs.com Copyright 2012 2012-04-09T19:26:53+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/white-paper-resilient-networks-with-timekeeper/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/white-paper-resilient-networks-with-timekeeper/#When:18:26:53Z Time distribution is inherently fragile. Network links fail or slow down, router and switch problems, traffic spikes, failures in time clocks, transient failures, GPS interruptions or spoofing, and even load on the local server can all introduce delays or asymmetries or service interruptions that can interfere with the delivery of reference time. An automated trading system or other transaction system that depends on precise time is exceptionally vulnerable to such failures - especially because some widely used client software often fails silently without even recording problems that could cause time slippage. 2012-04-09T18:26:53+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/gps-vulnerability/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/gps-vulnerability/#When:01:19:01Z And article in The Economist describes some of the vulnerabilities of the GPS system - one reason FSMLabs has invested so much effort in developing fault detection and recovery methods for TimeKeeper 2012-03-19T01:19:01+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/customer-complaints/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/customer-complaints/#When:21:49:27Z 2012-02-14T21:49:27+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/virtual-machines-and-time-synchronization/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/virtual-machines-and-time-synchronization/#When:01:53:57Z TimeKeeper’s advanced algorithms can compensate for virtual machine difficulties in keeping accurate time. 2011-11-03T01:53:57+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/meet-fsmlabs-london-stac/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/meet-fsmlabs-london-stac/#When:18:23:03Z November 7 in London 2011-10-30T18:23:03+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/meet-fsmlabs-in-new-york-city-september-19-2011/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/meet-fsmlabs-in-new-york-city-september-19-2011/#When:19:05:14Z FSMLabs will have representatives at The Linux in Finance Conference 2011-08-24T19:05:14+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/silent-failures-and-time-audits/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/silent-failures-and-time-audits/#When:16:16:36Z Time synchronization software is often too ready to believe whatever it is told. TimeKeeper is more skeptical—for good reason. 2011-08-15T16:16:36+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/measurement-of-timekeeper/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/measurement-of-timekeeper/#When:20:21:29Z FSMLabs has a rigorous, highly automated, test and regression system that is absolutely necessary to deliver high performance. 2011-06-16T20:21:29+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/infiniband-and-the-fsmlabs-drill-down-design-approach/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/infiniband-and-the-fsmlabs-drill-down-design-approach/#When:14:50:57Z TimeKeeper on Infiniband. 2011-06-14T14:50:57+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/timekeeper-sifma/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/timekeeper-sifma/#When:22:23:26Z TimeKeeper is being exhibited at SIFMA by several resellers. Drop by the Symmetricom or Spectracom booths and ask them about how TimeKeeper takes time “the last mile” to the application program. 2011-06-12T22:23:26+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/is-your-applications-time-stale/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/is-your-applications-time-stale/#When:16:55:55Z Matt Sherer, engineer on FSMLabs’ TimeKeeper product, writes: Having highly accurate time available on the network is great.  Getting that time to the application before it’s stale is even better. 2011-03-02T16:55:55+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/why-to-be-paranoid-about-time/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/why-to-be-paranoid-about-time/#When:00:34:18Z FSM’s Matt Sherer asks: How important is time to your application? To many people, not very much - as long as they can reasonably trust that their system time is accurate to a few seconds, that’s good enough. For them, a stock NTP client and server is sufficient - more than sufficient, actually, if it can get accuracy within under a second, or even within a few milliseconds. There are those of us, though, that obsess over time. We (and our applications) need to know that when we ask the operating system for time, the time we get is the actual time right now.  It can’t be 500 microseconds old, or even 100 microseconds old. 1 microsecond accuracy is getting a bit stale, actually. Sub-100 nanosecond accuracy is really what’s needed - whether it’s to satisfy regulatory requirements or to make sure that decisions being made are based on current reality and not the past. 2011-01-21T00:34:18+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/presssecurities-technology-monitor-1-5-11/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/presssecurities-technology-monitor-1-5-11/#When:18:30:39Z Second item in Securities Technology Monitor list of top items for technology in 2011 article 2011-01-10T18:30:39+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/do-those-latency-numbers-really-mean-it/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/do-those-latency-numbers-really-mean-it/#When:18:22:32Z The effects of “amortization” on latency. 2011-01-04T18:22:32+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/press-automated-trader-covers-timekeeper/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/press-automated-trader-covers-timekeeper/#When:12:01:24Z FSMLabs announces TimeKeeper™ 2010-04-13T12:01:24+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/press-coverage-securities-industry-news/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/press-coverage-securities-industry-news/#When:13:54:55Z Securities Industry News April 12 2010 2010-04-12T13:54:55+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/fsa-fines-three-firms-for-poor-transaction-reporting-practices/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/fsa-fines-three-firms-for-poor-transaction-reporting-practices/#When:03:08:18Z An article in Securities Industry News highlights the need for improved audit trails and record keeping in trading systems. 2010-04-09T03:08:18+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/timekeeper-article-in-dr-dobbs-journal/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/timekeeper-article-in-dr-dobbs-journal/#When:15:45:53Z Very few sites that use time synchronization systems have tested them. When asked how they know that the software/hardware is doing what is expected the response is usually “the documentation says so” or the “the software itself reports all is ok”. There are very few tools available to easily test time synchronization or easily reproduced methods for testing and this is a likely cause for this problem. 2010-04-07T15:45:53+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/production-timekeeping-released/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/production-timekeeping-released/#When:13:06:07Z Austin TX – December 8, 2008 – FSMLabs®, the enterprise real-time and timekeeping technology innovator, today announced the launch of Timekeeper, a new product for financial services and other business-critical enterprise applications. 2008-12-09T13:06:07+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/linux-community/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/linux-community/#When:06:29:01Z Normal business rules apply 2007-10-18T06:29:01+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/towards-end-to-end-solutions-for-business-transactions/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/towards-end-to-end-solutions-for-business-transactions/#When:07:26:01Z High speed/low latency business transactions require complete systems design approaches like that supported in FSMLabs RTMS. 2007-10-05T07:26:01+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/fsmlabs20/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/fsmlabs20/#When:17:08:00Z FSMLabs launches its new web site as we exand our Enterprise Real-Time technology. 2007-07-26T17:08:00+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/virtualizatio/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/virtualizatio/#When:23:19:00Z FSMLabs introduced light-weight virtualization more than a decade ago. 2007-07-25T23:19:00+00:00 http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/whatisrealtime/ http://www.fsmlabs.com/blog/whatisrealtime/#When:23:18:00Z What is Real-Time? 2007-07-25T23:18:00+00:00