By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 02:00 EST, 12 February 2013 | UPDATED: 02:00 EST, 12 February 2013

The IBM super computer is putting its massive hard drive to good use as it attempts to help fight cancer by sifting through virtual records.

The computer, named Watson, first gained recognition for beating two human record-holders at Jeopardy, but now it is using technology to help compile and sort reams of medical journals.

By sorting through two million pages of medical journal evidence and 600,000 pieces of medical evidence in order to diagnose cancer symptoms thoroughly.

Powerful: Super computer 'Watson' is now putting its bandwidth towards diagnosing lung cancer patients

In doing so, the computer will be able to speed up and more acurately diagnose new cases.

IBM has joined up with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and health insurer WellPoint for the venture, meaning that the findings will not stay in the confines of a computer room.

'It can take years for the latest developments in oncology to reach all practice settings,' Sloan-Kettering's president Craig Thompson told the Agence France Presse.

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IBM's super computer now reading medical files of lung cancer patients so that it can diagnose future cases