With The Machine, HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break. Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine. HP CTO Martin Fink in the Photonics laboratory at HP Labs Photograph by Richard Lewington/Hewlett-Packard HP CTO Martin Fink in the Photonics laboratory at HP Labs That’s what they’re calling it at HP Labs: “the Machine.” It’s basically a brand-new type of computer architecture that HP’s engineers say will serve as a replacement for today’s designs, with a new operating system, a different type of memory, and superfast data transfer. The company says it will bring the Machine to market within the next few years or fall on its face trying.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:38:12 +0000
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