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Large NY State Insurance Company spends $70M a year in Syracuse on data processing.
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Hardware and operation costs "negligible" (<10%) for modest IBM3090
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Cost is application programmers developing new software or maintaining old code - your grandfather's policy is an important dusty COBOL deck.
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~15 million lines of COBOL
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~3 year backlog for new application codes
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Where should they use high performance computing?
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Innovative insurance companies scan documents but don't need HPC
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Clearly need a more productive software model
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