PRINCETON, NJ, February 23, 2010 – Eigen.Systems LLC announced today the launch of eigen.spaces:blackbird, an application server for multi-core parallel applications based on the eigen.spaces framework. Eigen.Systems is a software development company specializing in high-performance parallel applications for risk management and high frequency trading. Blackbird is Eigen.Systems fastest, most powerful application server yet; packed with features such as many-core grid application management, fast messaging, flexible protocol switching, adaptive load balancing and advanced performance instrumentation.

Eigen.Systems has been providing high speed parallel application development tools since the launch of eigen.spaces in 2008. Since then they have continued to enhance eigen.spaces to support an increasingly rich variety of risk management and trading applications. The release of blackbird builds on the eigen.spaces framework to create an environment where performance is maximized through increased concurrency and cache .

Rakesh Joshi of Eigen.Systems said: “The key to getting the most of many-core lies in understanding application behavior under varying loads. Synchronization costs and latencies can best be understood by sampling instrumentation; by combining low overhead instrumentation with the ability to reallocate resources at run-time, blackbird is a tool to determine the best resource assignment and scheduling strategies to meet performance requirements.”

An Intel Software Partner since 2008, Eigen.Systems have developed high performance parallel frameworks based on Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) and the Intel Math Kernel (MKL).
Two years ago Eigen.Systems entered the Intel Software program, utilizing high performance processor optimized threading libraries from Intel (TBB / MKL ) in their products, including blackbird.

Blackbird will be available as a limited trial version as well as a full version for purchase.

About Eigen.Systems
Eigen.Systems was founded in 2006 by a group of investment banking technologists, with over 40 years of combined industry experience in risk management and capital markets. With insight born of long experience in all facets of fixed income, FX, equity and credit markets, they strive to build strong customer relationships based on a track record of effective delivery and a keen focus on doing what is best for the client’s business.

Press contact: Sarah Richards – sarah@eigensystems.com