Oracle Utilities Network Management System 1.11 offers new modeling and analysis features to improve distribution-grid management for electric utilities.

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That will make it possible for dozens more research projects, like high energy physics, genetic analysis and nanotechnology modeling, by groups of scientists accessing the grid through the Internet.

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The analytics include statistical modeling, functional grouping, multiple regress analysis and time series analysis, she said.

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Huang is now turning his focus beyond gamers to a host of new customers that will need number-crunching power: oil companies doing deep-sea seismic analysis, Wall Street banks modeling portfolio risk and biologists visualizing molecular structures to find drug target sites.

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Investment consultants provide various services, such as investment policy development asset allocation analysis, asset liability modeling, investment manager search and selection, performance measurement and evaluation, and customized educational programs.

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In the last few years, however, risk analytics have become much more powerful, driven in part by advances in areas such as modeling and testing, but also by the explosion of data available for analysis.

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