The World’s First Supercomputer to Compete at Jeopardy!
Back in the mid-1990s, IBM was a joke in the supercomputing field, and Cray and Silicon Graphics were building the truly innovative and powerful machines and cheap x86-Linux clusters were just starting to get traction. IBM’s Power2 and PowerPC processors were 32-bit chips with nothing much impressive about them and its 64-bit PowerPC 620 and [...]