Watson will help in the treatment of cancer

American oncologists to treat brain cancer with the help of a supercomputer IBM Watson. They hope that powerful equipment will contribute to saving people from dangerous disease of glioblastoma. The average life expectancy after diagnosis is 12 to 14 months. IBM has signed an agreement with the new York genome center (New York Genome Center), according to which Watson will be engaged in the collection and processing of all collected information on the methods of treatment of glioblastoma. In particular, the instrument will produce a transcript of the DNA of the patients.




The volume concerning the disease information is doubling every five years. The computer can process the accumulated knowledge and to draw their own conclusions, present recommendations, which may help experts to find a way to cure this cancer. Feature of Watson is the ability to understand simple written human language, context, and the ability to provide answers in the appropriate format.
Recall that the computer named after IBM's first President Thomas Watson, it consists of 90 interconnected large servers. Specifications — 16 terabytes of RAM, 80 billion operations per second, 90 a 3.5 gigagertsevyj processors.

Source: brainswork.ru