AWS re:Invent 2014

(FIN302) From 10 Days to 10 Minutes: How Aon Benfield Leverages AWS GPUs to Make Actuarial Calculations More Efficient | AWS re:Invent 2014


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Aon Benfield Securities, a leading global provider of risk management, insurance, and reinsurance brokerage, needs high-powered computing to process financial simulations for wealth management products. In the past, the firm's quarterly financial reporting took two weeks and a small army of people to complete-but by finding a creative way to use state-of-the-art AWS GPUs, Aon reduced calculation time from 10 days to 10 minutes.
This session will cover Aon Benfield's use of AWS GPUs and other services from AWS, including Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) to perform HPC calculations.
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