With its 2.746 exaFLOPS peak performance, “El Capitan” outpaces every other supercomputer on the planet, including the former ...

Most folk are aware of IBM’s Watson, the deep-thinking supercomputer that won jeopardy and launched an artificial intelligence bonanza. Watson is not the fastest supercomputer in the world ...

Most people know Watson as IBM's answer to Jeopardy star Ken Jennings. But IBM's aspirations for its artificially intelligent supercomputer are now less quiz show champion and more medical genius.

El Capitan can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale supercomputer. It's the world's third exascale machine ...

AllThingsD's Arik Hesseldahl and Steve Baker, author of "Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine", join digits to discuss Watson's performance on Jeopardy and the future of the supercomputer.

It’s just packaging to put them in together. The square hole is where the main processor, that is ultimately where the computer goes,” Watson said. He added that the system’s peak ...

The heart of IBM's midrange computer line (see Power Systems), as well as the Watson supercomputer, POWER chips are also used by Google and others. They share a common instruction set with PowerPC ...