Tervela bags $18m for go faster messaging appliances • The Register
In June this year Tervela launched the third generation of its messaging appliance, theTMX-500 Message Switch. This uses custom ASIC and FPGA chips to speed up the processing of Java Message Service (JMS) messages as they bounce around n-tier Java applications, loosely gluing them together so they can do transactions like the ones at the heart of financial systems on display at HPC on Wall Street.
The TX-500 comes in a 2U form factor (and is basically three motherboards and some fans) that can have sixteen Gigabit Ethernet links or four 10 Gigabit Ethernet links that allows anywhere from 4 to 64 million JMS messages per second to be processed, all with keeping the message latency under 10 microseconds.