Shanghai Stock Exchange

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To further improve trading eciency, data security
and quality of work, SSE decided to build a completely
new monitoring system simulation and testing
environment. It wanted this to be independent from
the live monitoring system and to allow the transfer
of some applications that previously ran in a UNIX®
environment, to an open x86 environment. The new
system would also carry out monitoring operation
simulation and testing on business processing
capabilities in the x86 environment.
Move to open systems
Many of SSE’s core trading systems run on a
HP Integrity server platform. Considering the
worldwide trends to using open platform in stock
exchange, SSE Technology Centre decided to use open
Linux servers to build the new monitoring system
simulation environment. They aimed to achieve better
business development by gradually migrating the
monitoring system to the Linux environment.
To nd a reliable platform for its high-performance,
open-source x86 monitoring simulation and testing
system, SSE sought the help of HP technical service
experts with whom they already had a close and
trusted relationship. The HP team looked at current
trading conditions and future SSE development needs
and conducted in-depth communication, analysis,
testing and eld trips. They rst deployed a monitoring
simulation and testing environment solution with the
open-source and x86 servers in current use at the
SSE. Subsequently they recommended HP Converged
Infrastructure technologies including HP Superdome 2
and HP ProLiant DL980 servers to build a completely
new simulation and testing environment.
Ecient test platform
HP has congured one HP Superdome 2 server as the
database server. As many of the previous applications
at SSE were developed with HP’s UNIX environment,
applications previously run on HP Integrity rx8620
servers have been migrated to the Superdome 2
using HP-UX operating system. At the same time,
HP has also provided the SSE with six HP ProLiant
DL980 servers to act as front-end processor and
application servers to migrate those applications
previously used in a UNIX environment to the open
x86 Linux environment.
The HP Superdome 2 and HP ProLiant DL980 servers
will help SSE to create an environment that enables
it to test the overall performance on x86 open system
platform. The system will also enable it to assess
whether it will be possible to migrate the monitoring
system to an open platform to provide listed
companies and investors with more ecient stock
trading management.
The HP solution includes the most powerful and easy
to manage range of existing Linux servers. They
ensure that specications, standards, openness and
compatibility levels are fullled and HP’s technical
experts have provided SSE with a Linux cluster system
that delivers increased capacity and capabilities. This
has enabled SSE to carry out testing and to develop
its own applications on the platform, maximising
eciency and portability with a view to deploying a
Linux open-source server in the trading system.
Customer
solution at
a glance
Hardware
• HP Superdome 2
• HP ProLiant DL980