Following a previous blog about Watson, the IBM Computer system that competed in Jeopardy! During February 2011, we now have more details on the building blocks of this incredible system. It was created using:
- 90 x IBM Power 7501 servers with 2880 POWER7 Cores using the 3.55 GHz chip
- 500 GB per sec on-chip bandwidth
- 10 Gb Ethernet network
- 15 Terabytes of memory
- 20 Terabytes of disk, clustered
- Runs IBM DeepQA software
- Scales out with and searches vast amounts of unstructured information with UIMA & Hadoop open source components
- 10 racks include servers, networking, shared disk system, cluster controllers
These are the same POWER 750’s that clients can purchase to run AIX, i/OS and LINUX.
Whilst an interesting exercise for IBM and an amusing use of IBM technology, there is a real business reason for IBM to continue to do this, not just competing in games (Chess etc). It is about turning data in knowledge. Watson’s IBM DeepQA software is at the centre of this intelligence.
For Healthcare and Life Sciences, this solution provides the capability to provide:
- Diagnostic Assistance for healthcare and Collaborative Medicine.
- Technical Support for Help Desks and Call Centres
- Enterprise knowledge management and business intelligence
IBM has written a white paper, Watson – A System Design for Answers which is worth a read.
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=stg-600BE30W
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