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We recently had the chance to speak with some modelers using Matlab to run some analysis for their Enterprise Risk Management program. They were surprised to find out that Matlab was supported on the Windows Compute Cluster Server. Is anybody else out
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Last week at the Valuation Actuaries Symposium I was able to attend a session hosted by Milliman at the Embassy Suites Hotel during which the MG-ALFA modeling product and the MG-Triton Valuation product were discussed and reviewed in the context of how
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In the past couple of years I've learned just enough about how computational modeling is used in Actuarial science to begin to understand the real possibilities. In a nutshell, I've found the big three applications are general capital model for purposes
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Stochastic methods have been well integrated into the Life insurance segment of the industry. From my naive perspective HEalth and to a lesser degree P&C have been unable to benefit from these methods due to a lack of commercial software that exploits
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On May 28th I made my first SOA presentation at the Spring Health Conference. I was one of three vendor representatives on a panel covering the Actuaries High Performance Computing Challenge. I thought I gave a reasonable presentation, but after the fact
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The Society Of Actuaries annual health Spring meeting is scheduled for the Hyatt Regency in Century City next week. I'll be presenting in Section 17 1:30 - 3:00 PM along with John Powers and Gordon Jackson. Stop by and introduce yourself. If you mention
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The Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS) has come a long way in building value for the Actuarial Community. After about a year of active communication a nice little ecosystem of modeling tools has begun to build around WCCS and Windows Ccmpute Cluster
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Safety in Numbers? Welcome to my first ever Blog entry, I’ve resisted entering the Blog-o-sphere up to now, but who will speak up for the actuarial users of Windows HPC tools if not me? My first Post title is pretty clearly a play on words in a number
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