IBM Watson runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise

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This is cool news! First the London Stock Exchange, now this!

IBM Watson runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise
I am sure that most of you already saw (or at least heard about) how Watson from IBM competed on the TV quiz show Jeopardy. The software runs on supercomputer which consists of 10 racks of IBM POWER 750 servers (making it a cluster of 90 servers, each having 32 cores with 4 hardware threads) . The much lesser known fact is that this machine is using SUSE Linux Enterprise as its operating system. …

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I like,I like, I Like it. Perfect!!!;);):wink:

That’s good news.:slight_smile:

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:06:02 +0000, dragonbite wrote:

> This is cool news! First the London Stock Exchange, now this!

I thought that was exceptionally cool - though I really hope that the
problems LSE had the first day they were live on the new system weren’t
attributable to the OS. I tend to think (but I’m biased) that it was
more likely an application issue, not an OS issue. But it doesn’t seem
anyone is saying what it was specifically.

Jim

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I will buy a IBM pc with suse linux. I like that!!!

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That is great! :slight_smile:

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I always knew SUSE was smart, now we have the proof. Does that makes us smart for running openSUSE?

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I am pretty sure it does :smiley:

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Kinda neat with this little plug

…but IBM has chosen SLES (probably because it has the best performance on IBM POWER7 among these options)…

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:06:01 +0000, stamostolias wrote:

> I will buy a IBM pc with suse linux. I like that!!!

I run openSUSE on an IBM Thinkpad (not Lenovo, it’s a T42p), and I like
how it runs. Just wish it had more memory. :wink:

Jim

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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:36:01 +0000, dragonbite wrote:

> Kinda neat with this little plug > …but IBM has chosen SLES (probably
> because it has the best performance
>> on IBM POWER7 among these options)…

Well, sure, but where do you think SLES comes from? :wink:

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

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How positively absolutely cool, and now I know why my laptop kept scrolling the following text on Monday,

“C’mon Cfn7, I know your from Chicago, it’s O Hare and Midway isn’t it, what’s in Toronto???”