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A comment on IBM Watson’s Next Venture. Parent comment

Re:IBM Watson’s Next Venture by wmf on Thursday November 14, 2013 @07:32PM (#6736899)
I would estimate that Google and Microsoft each operate more servers than IBM and they are definitely in the analytics business. (I consider Watson more analytics than HPC.)
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Re:IBM Watson’s Next Venture by utopkara on Thursday November 14, 2013 @08:52PM (#6737200)
Not true. Watson style analytics requires HPC, the kind that Google and Microsoft do not (need to) build. Although, that might change with time as (cheaper) computers get faster.
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