Watson, harnesses a massively parallel network of two to three thousand Power 7 computing cores in six refrigerator-sized containers.

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The development of CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia, the leading GPU company, in 2006-2007, changed everything, said Hanweck, who founded Hanweck Associates, to develop a low latency, real-time options analytics engine to price and manage risk for options using GPUs.

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Watson, harnesses a massively parallel network of 2, 000 to 3, 000 Power 7 computing cores in six refrigerator-size containers.

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