Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency

Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by monochromatic on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:45AM (#17247538)

I would think far less. HFT isn’t intentionally computationally expensive.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by foobarchu on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:04PM (#17248885)

And the HFT industry is incentivized to use as little processor time as possible, and thus as little power as possible.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by gowld on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:05PM (#17249466)

That's not true.

They'll take a 400W 10GHz CPU over a 5mW 1 GHz CPU every time, if it generates better financial returns.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by ethbro on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:04PM (#17250052)

Parent was referring to latency optimization, I believe.

But I'd assume most of those folks have ML / other slower models constantly churning away in the background, even if their HFT reactions are highly tuned and simpler.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by perl4ever on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:54PM (#17253128)

My impression is that to the extent that HFT is about relative speed, competition can't reduce power usage.

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