• "IBM’s researchers have shrunk Watson from the size of a master bedroom to a pizza-box-sized server
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[QUOTE=Talishmar;39549373]I kinda want to see this be a thing 10 years after the release of Crysis.[/QUOTE] We're already over half way there.
[QUOTE=NO ONE;39549906]No pictures of it yet?[/QUOTE] Here it is [img]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles18/518342/projects/3206493/7619acb2e6465cb3bfec92f394cf4518.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;39550044]It won't be very exciting, just an average server box. [IMG]http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/product/server-system-r2200gl.jpg[/IMG] Not too dissimilar to this.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Watson is made up of a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers (plus additional I/O, network and cluster controller nodes in 10 racks) with a total of 2880 POWER7 processor cores and 16 Terabytes of RAM. Each Power 750 server uses a 3.5 GHz POWER7 eight core processor, with four threads per core.[13][/QUOTE] [U][B]HOW?[/B][/U]
On the top this sounds all magical but it's probably a cut down version without all the hard drives.
[QUOTE=TheTailor25;39552904][U][B]HOW?[/B][/U][/QUOTE] uplink all over again
[QUOTE=TheTailor25;39552904][U][B]HOW?[/B][/U][/QUOTE] That was the original. Read the title (or the article that it's been excerpted from).
Was this the same robot that went on Jeopardy?
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;39556905]Was this the same robot that went on Jeopardy?[/QUOTE] Yes. First line of the article.
[QUOTE=Rents;39548781]Yes, turning the power off.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;vnfWpLbFxJ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnfWpLbFxJ4[/video]
I wonder if Watson's technology will ever be used to improve search engines for the general public.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;39547760]Moore's law, how I love thee..[/QUOTE] Moore's law is a commercial idea, not directly a technology idea.
[QUOTE=froztshock;39557678]I wonder if Watson's technology will ever be used to improve search engines for the general public.[/QUOTE]To be honest, i'm not personally too fond of a computer that tries to interpret my needs, they invariably get it wrong.
[QUOTE=Medevilae;39554477]Can't wait until they give Watson eyes [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk"][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/HAL9000.svg/200px-HAL9000.svg.png[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/images/icp/R259780Y30165R43/us__en_us__ibm100__watson__watson_logo__220x125.png[/IMG] I'm sorry, Dave. But I can't answer that.
Is it actually shrunk down to the size of a pizza box, or is the article misinterpreting the fact that people can get servers (which can be rather pizza box shaped) that allow for a remote connection to watson?
I think they did misenterpert what IBM is actually doing, which is being able to "harness" the computational power from a far away pizza box sized server. I doubt IBM has developed a small server that has the power Watson had. Plus, I haven't seen another article talk about this.
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