Posts Tagged ‘HPC’

  Innovation in High Performance Computing As the leading provider of products and services for managing catastrophe risk, RMS offers technology for managing risks associated with events ranging from earthquakes and floods to pandemics and terrorism. Understandably, it’s a CPU intensive business. “Not only does it require a lot of computing power for simple results, but ... Full story

MetLife Boosts Processing Power, Speed and Efficiency High-performance computing is often aimed at achieving new levels of processing power and speed. At MetLife, a new centralized high-performance computing environment and workflow process has not only achieved those goals, but has also streamlined a complex legacy environment and delivered stronger controls over actuarial models. Using Microsoft HPC ... Full story

Financial market firms face a unique set of workflow challenges. Massive amounts of data that need to be pulled from various business units within the enterprise make it a challenge for analysts to do their job quickly. Time is money, and any delay increases the probability of losing the deal to the competitor down the ... Full story

David Dorfman, a specialist in computational modeling for Microsoft, recently shared his thoughts on using HPC Server to improve performance and reduce actuarial modeling costs. WFS: Why is the insurance industry facing increasing demands for computational modeling? DD: A number of factors are driving demand… new regulatory requirements, support for equity risk hedging and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) ... Full story