POLYSYSTEMS AND WINDOWS HPC SERVER 2008 SOLUTIONS OFFER HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR ACTUARIAL MODELING

PARTNER PROFILE

PolySystems Inc. provides comprehensive valuation, projection, and financial reporting software solutions to the life, health and annuity insurance industry in the United States and abroad.

Established in 1970, PolySystems’ team of actuaries, systems professionals, programmers, and support personnel support nearly 800 installations in small, medium, and large-sized life and health insurers. Their systems perform valuations, projections, asset and liability management, source of earnings analysis, and experience studies for all lines of business.

PolySystems’ comprehensive solutions include the following functions which utilize grid computing platforms, such as Window HPC Server 2008, for stochastic analysis of actuarial projections.

• Advanced forecasting and planning

• Principles-based reserves

• Risk-based capital C-3 Phase 2

• VACARVM

• Economic capital calculations

• Equity-indexed annuity and UL FAS133 calculations

• Living Benefits (GMWB, GMIB, GMAB)

PolySystems’ customers perform these calculations and run robust, production-quality models. These calculations are computationally intensive. For this reason, many of the calculations are not feasible without a robust grid processing solution.

Windows HPC Server 2008 provides PolySystems’ customers with the processing power required to perform these calculations.

Windows® HPC Server 2008 enables broader adoption of high performance computing (HPC) by providing a rich and compatible end-user experience scaling from the desktop application to the cluster. A wide range of software vendors in various verticals have designed their applications to work seamlessly with Windows HPC Server 2008 so that users can submit and monitor jobs from within familiar applications without having to learn new or complex user interfaces.

PolySystems’ software is designed to be fully compatible with the Windows HPC Server 2008 platform. Enhanced computing power will be a necessity in your financial future. Integrating our robust, production-quality models, and reporting systems with Windows HPC Server 2008 helps ensure that you will be ready to meet future reporting requirements.

POLYSYSTEMS SOLUTIONS

WINDOWS HPC SERVER 2008

Windows HPC Server 2008 combines the power of a 64-bit Windows Server® platform with rich, out-of-the-box functionality to help improve the productivity, and reduce the complexity, of an HPC environment.

Windows HPC Server 2008 enables broader adoption of HPC, and increases productivity by providing numerous end-user, administrator, and developer features and tools, including:

• A rich and integrated end-user experience scaling from the desktop application to the clusters.

• Microsoft management tools that you can utilize to centrally manage the Windows Server infrastructure, including full support for command-line interfaces for administrators.

The To Do List simplifies cluster configuration tasks.

• Support for familiar development tools, such as the native parallel debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio®, to develop and troubleshoot parallel programs, including support for standard interfaces such as OpenMPI, Message Passing Interface (MPI), and Web Services.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For more information about Windows HPC Server 2008 and Windows HPC, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/hpc

For more information about PolySystems Inc., please visit http://www.polysystems.comhttp://www.polysystems.com

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ARCHITECTURE

A typical Windows HPC Server 2008 architecture is shown above. The Windows HPC Server 2008 head node, controls and mediates all access to the cluster resources, acts as the single point of management, deployment, and job scheduling for the cluster, and can failover to a backup head node in the case of failure.

Windows HPC Server 2008 uses the existing corporate infrastructure and Microsoft Active Directory® for security, account management, and Operations management using tools such as Systems Center Operations Manager 2007.

BENEFITS

Affordable, accessible, full-featured HPC. Windows HPC Server 2008 brings simple deployment, operation and IT integration to HPC at a price point that allows smaller companies and individual departments to successfully deploy HPC applications.

Highly scalable HPC Windows HPC Server 2008 provides the scalability of Windows Server 2008.

Utilize existing Windows expertise and IT investments. A Windows-based HPC platform that is cost-effective, easy to deploy and maintain, allows companies to utilize their existing Windows-based infrastructure and expertise.

Reliable, End-to-End Highly Secure HPC. Windows HPC Server 2008 includes support for Windows Server 2008 security features and uses the existing corporate infrastructure and Microsoft Active Directory® for security, account management, and Operations management using tools such as Systems Center Operations Manager 2007.

Lower cost of ownership Not only is Windows HPC Server 2008 affordable, but decreased wait time for rendering, increased productivity, and faster time-to-market all add up to long-term cost saving.

Improved productivity and product quality. Faster than ever compute runs mean that QA, release teams, designers, engineers, and IT professionals spend much less time than before waiting for results, improving productivity, and ultimately improving quality.