IBM Rolls Out New Power 7 With Watson Power

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  • macelo
    but can it play crysis?
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  • The_King
    My i7 can do that in half the time
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  • opmopadop
    Calculations that used to take a month to run are now finished in less than a week. This means that I can do eight times more science in the same timeframe than I could do before

    So thats less than a 5 day working week yeah?

    Get Watson to answer this one.

    Im going back to doing more science while I wait for the answer...
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  • meat81
    Well it definitely can play a Crysis 2 port!!!!!!!!
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  • artax33
    This means that I can do eight times more science...
    Sounds a little like GLaDOS in Portal.
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  • K2N hater
    I'm sure the professor will find a way to make calculations so complex it will take a month to complete.
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  • NapoleonDK
    artax33Sounds a little like GLaDOS in Portal.^^This. :D
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  • igot1forya
    "Calculations that used to take a month to run are now finished in less than a week. This means that I can do eight times more science in the same timeframe"

    Did I miss something in my math? I count only 4x as much work, certainly by "less than a week" he means, "less than 4 days" because a week is still 7 days and a month is a 28-31 days, last I checked.

    2+2=5 for large instances of 2? Perhaps...
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  • virtualban
    macelobut can it play crysis?I would dare ask a more frightening question: When will "it" advance enough to be called "he" or "she"?
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  • back_by_demand
    If its called Watson i'm pretty sure it's a "He"
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