PBS Newshour 2/14/2011
Excerpt from transcript for techies:
MILES O'BRIEN, Newshour science correspondent: That's David Ferrucci, Watson's proud papa.
DAVID FERRUCCI, Watson Project, IBM: So, you're looking at 10 racks of power 750. So, there's 10 racks. There's 90 what they call power 750 servers.
MILES O'BRIEN: He introduced me to his silicon progeny.
DAVID FERRUCCI: So, overall, there's about 2,880 cores in that system, about 15 terabytes of RAM.
MILES O'BRIEN: For those of us who don't have a doctorate in computer science, Watson is equivalent to about 6,000 high-end home computers. But the secret sauce is the software that gives Watson the ability to understand language like no computer ever has.
NOVA - Smartest Machine on Earth (full show)
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