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[school-discuss] Beowulf Cluster on Jeopardy?



Now that IBM's supercomputer Watson has established
its superiority to humans in the game of Jeopardy . . .

http://www.slate.com/id/2284721/pagenum/all

. . . how long will it take the FLOSS community to
construct a Beowulf cluster . . .

http://www.beowulf.org/

. . . that can defeat IBM's best efforts?

Consider the benefits to such a project:

1. It would be an extremely educational experience
for the students who work on it.

2. The publicity would be fantastic, win or lose.

3. Any prize money won could go towards helping
out various FLOSS-related activities.

I'd like to see people's thoughts on this.

Joel