A quant systems engineer is evaluating Tencent Cloud's low-latency compute offerings, including SA5 and SA9/SA9e instances, for backtesting and benchmarking trading workloads after receiving free...

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        "author": "Retarded_Rhino",
        "excerpt": "Not sure who this would be for? Any proper firm will have their own hardware both in colo/non-colo locations for precisely the use cases the email describes.",
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        "excerpt": "sales ppl in tencent trying desperately to up their sales. Oh I do know tencent has their not so secret arm of investment team( manage their huge internal cash from scamming kids on their mobile games, and infra tax cuz everyone in China use wechat pay) not sure how quantitative they are but given tencent is a tech company they can definitely find talent if they want to. doubt it is any useful tbh",
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        "excerpt": "Honestly I'm curious how you'd tell whether a bad p99 came from your code or the VM. Would you replay the same data on your own machine too, or is there a way to separate that out on the cloud instance?",
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        "excerpt": "the salespeople there are nice",
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      "[post] Tencent Cloud contacted me after finding one of my quant-related projects on GitHub. They’re offering free trial credits to benchmark workloads on their low-latency infrastructure.",
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    "post_text": "Tencent Cloud contacted me after finding one of my quant-related projects on GitHub. They’re offering free trial credits to benchmark workloads on their low-latency infrastructure.\n\nThey specifically mentioned:\n\nSA5 parallel execution / batch backtesting\n\nSA9 / SA9e low-latency workloads\n\nGPU instances factor research / model training\n\nInfrastructure near major global exchanges\n\nA new SA9 instance in Hong Kong\n\nI work mostly on the systems side C++, DPDK, networking, order books, and latency benchmarking so I'm curious about the practical use of something like this.\n\nFor example, would a cloud instance like this be useful for:\n\nMarket-data replay and backtesting\n\nBenchmarking a C++ order book\n\nTesting DPDK/networking workloads\n\nComparing p50/p95/p99/p99.9 latency across different CPUs\n\nExperimenting with CPU pinning, NUMA, hugepages, etc.\n\nI understand that cloud VM latency isn't representative of colocated HFT infrastructure, but I'm wondering whether the hardware and networking environment can still make for a useful engineering benchmark.\n\nHas anyone here actually used Tencent Cloud (or similar cloud infrastructure) for low-latency/quant workloads? What would be a worthwhile benchmark to run with the credits?",
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