See http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/systems-research/themachine/
What you might read there--pretty impressive claims--is as follows:
By 2020, 30 billion connected devices will generate unprecedented
amounts of data. The infrastructure required to collect, process, store, and
analyze this data requires transformational changes in the foundations of
computing. Bottom line: current systems can’t handle where we are headed and we
need a new solution.
HP has that solution in The Machine. By discarding a computing model
that has stood unchallenged for sixty years, we are poised to leave sixty years
of compromises and inefficiencies behind. We’re pushing the boundaries of the
physics behind IT, using electrons for computation, photons for communication,
and ions for storage.
The Machine will fuse memory and storage, flatten complex data
hierarchies, bring processing closer to the data, embed security control points
throughout the hardware and software stacks, and enable management and
assurance of the system at scale.
The Machine will reinvent the fundamental architecture of
computers to enable a quantum leap in performance and efficiency, while
lowering costs over the long term and improving security.
The industry is at a technology inflection point
that HP is uniquely positioned to take advantage of going forward. The Machine
demonstrates the innovation agenda that will drive our company, and the world,
forward.
What you can also find are references to blog postings. Here's one, asserting true progress:
The
Next Iteration of Memory for The Machine
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Behind-the-scenes-Labs/The-Next-Iteration-of-Memory-for-The-Machine/ba-p/6800656#.Vi5FFGSrRR6
Today
HP and SanDisk announced
a new partnership with exciting
implications for The Machine. The partnership unites
HP’s Memristor technology and know-how and SanDisk’s ReRAM technology and
manufacturing and design expertise.
Working
together with SanDisk, we’re aiming to create a new Storage Class Memory
technology. We hope to use this new technology in The Machine and we’ll also be
working together on near-term enterprise-wide solutions for our customers.
The
Machine will reinvent computing, knocking the current model, which has stood
unchallenged for sixty years, back on its heels. It is Hewlett Packard Labs’
most ambitious project and will bring together breakthrough improvements to
technology ranging from non-volatile memory to photonically-enabled fabrics;
from workload-specific processing to a full suite of open source developer
tools.
Because memory
is the heart of The Machine, we’re excited about this new partnership and what it holds
for the future of Memory-driven computing at HP.
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