Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 10:19:16 CST 2011
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