What is the IBM Watson supercomputer? Watson was a supercomputer designed and developed by IBM. This advanced computer combined artificial intelligence (AI), automation and sophisticated analytics capabilities to deliver optimal performance as a “question answering” machine. The supercomputer was named for Thomas J. Watson, former chairman and CEO who renamed Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, founded in 1911, […]
The war of words among AI supercomputer vendors escalated this week with Google claiming that its TPU-based system is faster and more efficient than Nvidia’s A100-based entry, according to its own testing. Nvidia countered that its H100 system is faster based on testing conducted by the independent MLCommons using MLPerf 3.0. Google researchers reported that […]
What is IBM Roadrunner? Roadrunner was a supercomputer developed by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This hybrid supercomputer cost $133 million to develop. In 2008, Roadrunner became the first computer to break what has been called the petaflop barrier — the ability to operate at a rate of a thousand […]