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  • Introduction to Using Graphical Processing Units for Variable
    slower than no GPUs at all! Building a variable annuity guarantee model is way differ- ent than building ... describe different aspects of modeling a variable annuity guarantee. The third part of the article will ...

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    • Authors: Bryon Robidoux
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Spark: the Next-generation Processing Engine for Big Data
    one can also register the data frame as a SQL table and use SQL-like syntax to do the joining operations ... speed due to optimized algorithm and parallelism (Table 1). The spark clus- ter reduced the processing time ...

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    • Authors: Dihui Lai, Qichun Xu
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency