The Software and Hardware Components of the Watson Supercomputer - Case Study Example

Download file to see previous pages Watson's computer system will able to access the structure and unstructured contents of millions of pages that are stored in the disk. Watson through using the capacity of machine knowledge, power of statistical analysis and language processing recognizes and discovers the evidence of the problems. Moreover, it compares the most prominent possible solution, through positioning its confidence in its accuracy and responses in a very quick time (1IBM, n.d.).
Correspondingly, the paper intends to analyze both the software and hardware components of the Watson supercomputer. Additionally, the uses of Walton’s application in other environments like health care and communication ecosystem will be evaluated.
IBM Watson is powered with 3000 processors, which enables the computing system to run algorithms depending on ‘Natural Language Processing’ (NLP). This processor on the other hand helps computers in translating the human language (high-level language) in the form of the data that can be utilized as input in the computer system. This objective can be achieved with the help of the processor by reducing letters, words, or symbols into a gigantic database known as information. Additionally, using 3000 processors enables IBM to deliver high quality, outstanding price-per-performance with processing data quickly and more efficiently. Server-based on 3000 processors provides platforms, which can support lowering the workloads and total cost of ownership. It gives more reliability over the performance by focusing on business instead of computers (Schauer, 2008; Chapman, 2005).
In this context through doubling, tripling, or quadrupling the number of processors in the Watsons computing capabilities will significantly have an effect on computer processing. With the increase in the number of processor counts, the execution time of the data bits will gradually decrease, thus improvising the overall performance of the computing platform. ...Download file to see next pages Read More