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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. businessweek/articles/2014-06-11/with-the-machine-hp-may-have-invented-a-new-kind-of-computer
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 23:39:05 +0000

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