IBM's Watson natural language Question & Answer system made headlines recently with its primetime debut on Jeopardy. Despite a few embarassing answers, Watson trounced top Jeopardy players Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson is built from 90 IBM Power 750 IBM Linux servers with 16 terabytes of memory providing 80 Teraflops of processing power. Watson is perhaps the most famous "Big Data" systems out there. Watson's knowledge base consists of 200 million pages of text data that is pre-processed using …
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