Nationwide Financial

Nationwide: The Goods for Grid
ComputerWorld

According to Nationwide, the best way to convince those who doubt grid's potential is to show them that it works. By running numerically intensive actuarial calculations on a desktop grid instead of on a single server, the company has cut computation time on one process from 36 days to 26 hours.

Peak Performance
TechDecisions

If your company is like most insurance carriers, you are using only 30 percent or less of the computing capacity of your desktops. Grid computing links those computers to harness their unused power to race through complicated actuarial models in a fraction of the time previously needed.