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OS Switch Nets Hotspot FX Performance Gain

Since the change, the platform's performance is two to four times better, and the system is "more deterministic and easier for us to support," says Steven Sadoff, executive vice president and CIO at Knight.

To achieve these results, the broker optimized Hotspot FX to run on version 5.2 of the 64-bit CentOS distribution of Linux, where it previously ran on the 64-bit version of Windows 2003 running service pack 2. Knight also upgraded the hardware platform to Hewlett-Packard (HP) DL360 G6 servers

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