What kind of humongous tasks do supercomputers do? What type of mathematical models can be so complex that it requires a computer close to $1B?
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Reinsurance modelling requires ridiculously large models. You basically want to model the probability of every possible natural disaster based on every possible inout in every country you insure. Which for many reinsurers is most of them.
I remember a fulla telling me about a time they took him into the supercomputer room ar swiss re. Apparently it was no shit a double key-turn entry with security guards into a few dudes in a room running code.
Pretty cool.
Its why I always find it hilarious when people deny climate change is even happening. Like, buddy, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of private capital is being redeployed on the basis of the simulations run by some of the most expensive computers in the world, programmes by some of the smartest highest paid people in the world, and you think that all the competitors, at the same time, are all too independently stupid to exploit the market inefficiency?
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