I'm already employed, but when my roommate told me this you better believe I went off on him (in jest) over not telling me before, in the past 3 years of my knowing him.
That being said, I think the latter part of your comment this could be a good question. I think asking him what issues he ran into - which might be more appropriate after he explains what the particulars of the project were/are - might be a little more generic though.
As an aside, after I posted this I went and did a little research on IBM's site - which is more marketing fluff than technical explanation - and one of the things they emphasized was that Watson was built as a custom solution to overcome some (ambiguous) lack of technical feasibility with existing hardware. One of the questions that came to mind after hearing this was why they couldn't just use the same algorithm/ of a blue gene/X. Basically, what differentiates Watson from any other distributed super computer, if anything (significant). I imagine theres no big difference, probably just tweaks in networking types, cpu counts/speeds, etc. - things that would've made Watson doable, but not optimally doable.
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I'm already employed, but when my roommate told me this you better believe I went off on him (in jest) over not telling me before, in the past 3 years of my knowing him.
That being said, I think the latter part of your comment this could be a good question. I think asking him what issues he ran into - which might be more appropriate after he explains what the particulars of the project were/are - might be a little more generic though.
As an aside, after I posted this I went and did a little research on IBM's site - which is more marketing fluff than technical explanation - and one of the things they emphasized was that Watson was built as a custom solution to overcome some (ambiguous) lack of technical feasibility with existing hardware. One of the questions that came to mind after hearing this was why they couldn't just use the same algorithm/ of a blue gene/X. Basically, what differentiates Watson from any other distributed super computer, if anything (significant). I imagine theres no big difference, probably just tweaks in networking types, cpu counts/speeds, etc. - things that would've made Watson doable, but not optimally doable.