HP unveil The Machine

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HP announces its revolutionary new computer capable of a calculating 640 terabytes of data in a billionth of a second.

The super-powerful photonic device is reported to be the future of computing, with HP claiming it will allow for six times more computing power despite needing 80 times less resources…

 

The Machine is designed to copy with more data than any machine before it.

The new system will run on HP’s new The Machine operating system, an open-source OS designed to be optimised for the huge of data that can be transferred.

HP say "The Machine" (it's all sounding a bit Matrix) is built around the concept of memristors; resistors capable of storing information in a permanent state, even when powered off. The memristors will be as fast as RAM but are also capable of storing data permanently like a hard drive or SSD. What this means in terms of gaming is PC's could instantly boot up, while loading screens will essentially be eliminated due to the lightning-fast transfer rates.

Rather than being connected using traditional copper wires, HP's The Machine will be using silicon photonics to boost the speed of data transfer and vastly reducing the energy demands. The silicon photonics will also be significantly thinner, meaning more data can be packed into a smaller package.

The device is still in the extremely early stages of development, but HP claim that this not a server, workstation, gaming PC or phone device, but rather an answer to everything. The technology can even be shrunk down to ensure massive performance even in smart phones, potentially allowing a mobile to come equipped with up to 100 terabytes of memory. That’s nearly enough to store the contact details of every person on the planet.

The HP Machine is still a long way off, with HP aiming for samples next year before the first devices start cropping up during 2018. It’s thought the first silicon photonic devices will replace entire server centres with a single refrigerator-sized device.

While the devices will no doubt debut as servers and supercomputers, the tech is also being optimised for traditional PCs, laptops and phones, with HP even going so far is creating an optimised version of Android specifically for The Machine.

 

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[flibberdipper]

Interesting, and kinda weird.

[ohJey]

Interesting, and kinda weird.

It's for government spying 

[flibberdipper]

It's for government spying 

So they can harvest more of our personal data now? Rats.

[ohJey]

So they can harvest more of our personal data now? Rats.

Yup   put on your tinfoil hat, I got mine on

[flibberdipper]

Yup   put on your tinfoil hat, I got mine on

I'm wearing two.

[ZeroBreaker]

How the hell can anyone possibly take this seriously when it's called 'the machine'

If they can't spend two seconds on a good name, why should I be interested in this future technology

Come on HP, something like NexGen computing or FuturePC or even project X - anything but the machine