Watson: A Challenge for the Ages
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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 (US) about Watson’s workload optimized system design.
Watch the video (00:03:01) 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.
Building Watson on commercially available POWER7 systems ensures the acceleration of businesses adopting workload optimized systems in industries where knowledge acquisition and analytics are important. Watson uses commercially available Power 750 systems, deployed by businesses today to run workload optimized systems for everything from complex analytics to transaction processing. Watch the videos to see how these businesses are using workload optimized systems.
To better understand the root causes of cancer and other diseases Rice University uses workload optimized systems based on POWER7 to deliver a faster approach for shared research computing in real time. These systems can provide increased flexibility and efficiency in analysis across a range of problems and can handle high levels of parallel processing of data like genomic sequencing, protein folding and drug modeling. To the researchers at Rice University, it’s not simply a more versatile server; it’s a giant leap towards understanding cancer.
A customs brokerage firm in Canada, GHY International, uses a POWER7 workload optimized system to manage a growing international trade services and consulting business. Dedicated to helping clients buy and sell goods internationally, GHY is using POWER7 systems to help customers manage the staples of worldwide trade, such as compliance and risk management, in real time, saving businesses time and money by expediting the production of customs forms.
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