Gojomo

2011-02-17
IBM Watson: Overprovisioned "Big Iron"?

At Memesteading: IBM Watson: Overprovisioned "Big Iron"?
IBM is known, and rightly admired, for many things… but hardware thrift isn’t one of them. Could a leaner, younger, hungrier team have matched Watson’s performance with a tiny fraction of Watson’s 2880 cores and 15TB RAM?