IRVINE, CA — (Marketwired) — 06/11/13 — , the leading provider of application-intelligent networking software and hardware, today announced three executives will speak at the STAC Summits in Chicago, New York and London. These conferences will bring together industry leaders to discuss engineering challenges and solutions in financial trading technology.
Martin Porter, vice president of software development, will speak at , Steve Pope, co-founder and chief technical officer, at , and David Riddoch, chief architect, at All three executives will discuss Solarflare-s perspective on the future of sockets in financial applications. This includes the expansion of hardware acceleration up the stack into functionality that is traditionally in the application domain.
Technical Brief – Using hardware to transform how applications use networks
Conference Center at UBS Tower
2nd Floor, Michigan Ballroom
One North Wacker Drive
Chicago
June 11th, 2013
3:25 PM CDT
Martin Porter, vice president of software development, Solarflare
Martin Porter is responsible for all software, firmware and customer support activities at Solarflare. He joined the company through its merger with Level 5 Networks where he served as Software Director for three years. Porter spent the previous five years in the same role at Conexant where he managed the software development group for ADSL silicon, leading to shipments of over 13 million units. Previous roles include lead software architect of the iconic SADiE Digital Audio Workstation. He holds a first class degree in mathematics from Nottingham University and a master-s with distinction from York University.
Technical Briefing: Using hardware to transform how applications use networks
Grand Hyatt
Manhattan Ballroom
Park Avenue at Grand Central Station
New York
June 17th, 2013
3:30 PM EDT
Steve Pope, co-founder and chief technical officer, Solarflare
Steve Pope is the CTO of Solarflare. Previously he co-founded Level 5 Networks and prior to that was a post-doctorate researcher in the field of high-speed networks and operating systems at Olivetti Research Labs, which later became AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.
Technical Briefing: Using hardware to transform how applications use networks
Hyatt Andaz Hotel
Great Eastern Room
40 Liverpool Street
London
June 24th, 2013
3:30 PM BST
David Riddoch, chief architect, Solarflare
David Riddoch, chief architect of Solarflare, which he co-founded in July 2002. Previously, David was the architect and lead developer of the software for the CLAN high performance network project at AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. David holds a first class degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in high performance networking from the University of Cambridge.
Solarflare is the leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O products that bridge the gap between applications and the network, delivering improved performance, increased scalability, and higher return on investment. The company-s solutions are widely used in scale-out server environments such as high frequency trading, high performance computing, cloud, virtualization and big data. Solarflare-s products are available from leading distributors and value-added resellers, as well as from Dell, IBM, and HP. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California and operates an R&D facility in Cambridge, UK.
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