IBM Watson Engagement Advisor hopes to improve customer service. IBM Watson Solutions VP Stephen Gold interacts with the new IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, which uses cloud-delivered mobile and online chat technology to assist businesses’ customers, anytime and anywhere (credit: Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM) Now customers can access Watson’s question-answering power directly. IBM has unveiled the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, a cognitive computing assistant that “learns, adapts and understands a company’s data quickly and easily,” according to IBM. The IBM Watson Engagement Advisor‘s “Ask Watson” feature can quickly help address customers’ questions, offer feedback to guide their purchase decisions, and troubleshoot their problems.
No more “dial one for….” Calling upon IBM’s Big Data Analytics technologies, IBM Watson retrieves data about customers to help ensure interactions are tailored to their needs, and search its corpus of stored information for the best solutions. Consider these findings: Bitcoin network speed 8 times faster than top 500 supercomputers combined. The mining speed of the bitcoin network on bitcoinwatch.com passed 1 exaFLOPS (1,000 petaFLOPS) this week — more than 8 times the combined speed of the Top 500 supercomputers, The Genesis Block reports .
(FLOPS stands for FLoating-point Operations Per Second , and is frequently used as a standard to measure computer speed. Bitcoin mining uses an integer calculation and almost no floating-point operations, so converting bitcoin network speed to this standard is somewhat clumsy.) The FLOPS estimate is based on the opportunity cost of computers using their hardware for mining instead of other applications. Miners are using their graphics cards to perform hashes instead of other FLOPS-based distributed computing. Therefore, a conversion rate of 1 hash = 12.7K FLOP is used to estimate what this hardware could be doing. The combined speed of the Top 500 supercomputers is 48 petaFLOPS, roughly equivalent to 5% of the bitcoin network. How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? With all the buzz about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing I got to thinking, how powerful were the computers that "took us to the Moon?
" It turns out, they were nothing short of amazing. If you've never had a nerdy bone in your body, feel free to skip this post. But, if you ever laid on your back under the stars and thought about Mercury, Gemini, Apollo or the Space Shuttle, read on and see if you're as geek-struck as I was researching this. Comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer to an IBM PC XT My first thought was how did the Apollo computer compare to the iPhone? Take Intel's venerable 8086 for example -- you might know it better as "x86".
The IBM PC XT also ran at a dizzying clock speed of 4.077MHz. Regardless, we've established that we're dealing with some pretty archaic hardware. The Software The Apollo system also implemented a sophisticated virtual machine which offered more complex instructions, and could be used to perform more advanced mathematics. Patches. ¿Cuántos FLOPS alcanzan las consolas? ¿Cuántos FLOPS alcanzan las consolas? Sin duda, los indicadores de rendimiento de operaciones de coma flotante no son fáciles de medir, con prefijos como M (mega), G (giga), T (tera) y muy pronto P (peta). Un artículo de TG Daily trata de poner un poco de orden en el segmento de las consolas. A la hora de medir el número de flops que alcanza una consola, se pueden hacer dos combinaciones: contar los flops del procesador central de la consola; o contar los flops potenciales de la GPU y añadirle los flops de la CPU.
Esta segunda opción es controvertida porque los flops de la GPU no se utilizan en computación y se dice que no pueden ser contados como si simplemente representasen un número teórico. Otros dicen que sí, que las GPUs se utilizan en computación (en la computación de operaciones de shader). Si observamos el progreso de los gráficos en los PCs los números son aún más sorprendentes. La potencia es tanta que las posibilidades parecen ilimitadas. vINQulosTG Daily. E3 2005: Microsoft's Xbox 360 vs. Sony's PlayStation 3 - Xbox360 News at IGN. GPU Even ignoring the bandwidth limitations the PS3's GPU is not as powerful as the Xbox 360's GPU. Below are the specs from Sony's press release regarding the PS3's GPU. 550 MHz Independent vertex/pixel shaders 51 billion dot products per second (total system performance) 300M transistors 136 "shader operations" per clock The interesting ALU performance numbers are 51 billion dot products per second (total system performance), 300M transistors, and more than twice as powerful as the 6800 Ultra.
The 51 billions dot products per cycle were listed on a summary slide of total graphics system performance and are assumed to include the Cell processor. Sony's calculations seem to assume that the Cell can do a dot product per cycle per DSP, despite not having a dot product instruction. However, using Sony's claim, 7 dot products per cycle * 3.2 GHz = 22.4 billion dot products per second for the CPU. The 6800 Ultra has 16 pixel pipes, 6 vertex pipes, and runs at 400 MHz. China's fastest supercomputer Tianhe-1 creates new speed record. BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's Tianhe-1 has overtaken Nebule to regain top spot as China's fastest computer according to a new list of China's Top 100 supercomputers released Thursday. On the biannual world TOP 500 list published in June, China's Nebulae machine took the second spot only after the U.S.'s Jaguar system, while Tianhe-1 took seventh place.
Housed at the National Center for Supercomputing in northern port city of Tianjin, Tianhe-1, meaning Milky Way, has a sustained computing speed of 2,507 trillion calculations, or 2.507 petaflops, per second. It has a theoretical speed of 4.7 petaflops per second, according to a R&D research member of Tianhe-1. A petaflop is equivalent to 1,000 trillion calculations. Nebulae housed in Shenzhen is capable of sustained computing of 1.271 petaflop per second (PFlop/s) on the Linpack benchmark, a measure for ranking supercomputers in world Top 500 list.
Is Near -SIN Graph - Exponential Growth of Computing.