Watson: The next evolution of machines winning against humans…

IBM Power7 System

The Watson Supercomputer

Watson’s success in the Jeopardy! challenge was inspiring, but the business impact of optimized systems design is just beginning. Watson’s advances in deep analytics and its ability to process unstructured data and interpret natural language will now be tailored to fit the requirements of new solutions in science, healthcare, financial services and other industries.

Watson is a workload optimized system designed for complex analytics, made possible by integrating massively parallel POWER7 processors and DeepQA technology. Read the white paper about Watson’s workload optimized system design.

What is Watson? – A System Designed for Answers

Watch the video below featuring Dr. Dave Ferrucci, principal investigator for the IBM Research team responsible for building Watson, as he and other IBMers talk about how Watson’s DeepQA technology exploits the massive parallelism capability of POWER7 processors.

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    Douglas Pharmaceuticals have partnered with Spectrum for the last 7 years and is pleased to continue this alliance, with Spectrum continuing to support our large AIX environment and Legacy Systems on a 24*7 basis.

    Paul Tobin, IT Manager
    Douglas Pharmaceuticals

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