With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
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With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
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#3Is this about a storage breakthrough with memristors, about alternatives to Von Neumann architecture, or just an incomprehensible press release?
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#4I encourage folks to watch this tech talk by HP Research Labs on the discovery of the memristor and implementation details.
It goes into the gory technical details, from the low level physics to the construction of the gates, the truth tables, and the high level computation possibilities once chips are assembled in a crossbar package.
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#5Is this about a storage breakthrough with memristors, about alternatives to Von Neumann architecture, or just an incomprehensible press release?
A little of each. The article got kind of meta at the end.
"Any delivery date has to be taken with some skepticism given that HP has been hyping the memristor technology for years and failed to meet earlier self-imposed deadlines."
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#6Is this about a storage breakthrough with memristors, about alternatives to Von Neumann architecture, or just an incomprehensible press release?
A little of each. The article got kind of meta at the end. "Any delivery date has to be taken with some skepticism given that HP has been hyping the memristor technology for years and failed to meet earlier self-imposed deadlines."
A little of each, but a lot of money being thrown at it, three quarters of HP research.
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#7Seems like a test platform for memristor tech.
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#8I so much want this to be true, I can't wait for it. Not having a layered memory architecture means no VM, everything has be rethought from the filesystem down.
On a related note:
"Operating systems have not been taught what to do with all of this memory, and HP will have to get very creative."
Anyone knows what this could possibly mean?
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#9Link to the printable version, for those who don't like paginated stories:
> http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/206401-with-the...
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#10as for a new OS, single level store OSes should work just fine in such an environment.