Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Mar 2 10:25:05 CST 2011
I want two please... ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:19 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] IBM Watson's numbers Here are the basic numbers on IBM's Watson computer, world Jeopardy champion. 15 TB of RAM 1870 processor cores 80 teraflops per second (80 trillion) Actual size of the data used is less than 1TB Each Power7 processor can handle 32 simultaneous tasks -- 8 cores, 4 threads per core. If you have to ask how much, you can't afford it. Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com