But now, a basic Watson configuration has been between 16 and 32 cores with 256GB of RAM, according to High. IBM can chain these smaller Watson boxes together as needed for greater scale, he added.

O ne year after IBM’s Watson defeated two of the greatest champions in Jeopardy history, the supercomputer is taking a “job” on Wall Street helping banking giant Citigroup analyze data.

In this file photo, visitors check out a slimmed down version of the IBM Watson supercomputer at IBM's stand at the CeBIT technology trade fair on Mar. 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany.

The original Watson system that played and won Jeopardy consisted of 90 IBM Power 750 servers taking up 10 full racks (pictured below). That works out to 2,880 CPU cores and 15TB of RAM.

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Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world’s best human “Jeopardy!” champions, is going to college. IBM announced today that it will provide a Watson system to Rensselaer ...

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Feb. 16, 2011 -- IBM's super computer Watson clobbered the competition on night two of the three-day man vs. machine "Jeopardy!" challenge.

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