Editor’s note: The following article was written by
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM
Research’s director of Distributed Computing.
Workload optimized systems are emerging as powerful
computers that, in the case of IBM’s Watson,
have been designed to tackle specific, complex problems such as cancer research.
But then the Research team asked: How could we
design a computer that understands what the
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM
Research’s director of Distributed Computing.
Workload optimized systems are emerging as powerful
computers that, in the case of IBM’s Watson,
have been designed to tackle specific, complex problems such as cancer research.
But then the Research team asked: How could we
design a computer that understands what the