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Hewlett Packard The Machine. Thoughts?

rlhegirarlhegira Member UncommonPosts: 36
in Hardware
So HP is unveiling as they say a new way of computing the memory centric computing. Here is a article from HP about it. 
http://www.labs.hpe.com/research/themachine/

Do you think this is just a new marketing thing or something that could change processing going forward and will it have any effect on gaming?

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  • GruntyGrunty Member EpicPosts: 8,657
    edited July 2016
    "The developer tools available now include the following four contributions of code:

    1)  Fast optimistic engine for data unification services: A completely new database engine that speeds up applications by taking advantage of a large number of CPU cores and non-volatile memory (NVM)."


    Looks more like they are working on a super computer model.  It might have applications in large server arrays such as MMO server farms but none that would currently apply directly to personal computers.  That might help reduce debacles like Black Desert Online putting a lot of their calculations on the client.

    "I used to think the worst thing in life was to be all alone.  It's not.  The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."  Robin Williams
  • syntax42syntax42 Member UncommonPosts: 1,385
    It is just marketing talk.  They thought they had a breakthrough in memristor technology, but that didn't pan out.  Memristors were a key part of their strategy to reinvent computer architecture.  Without them functioning as they wanted/predicted, the best they can do is gamble on the next technology:  light-based processing.

    https://www.hpcwire.com/2015/06/11/hp-removes-memristors-from-its-machine-roadmap-until-further-notice/
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