• HPE Powers Up The Machine Architecture

    January 9, 2017 Paul Teich

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise is not just a manufacturer that takes components from Intel and assembles them into systems. The company also has a heritage of innovating, and it was showing off its new datacenter architecture research and development testbed, dubbed The Machine, as 2016 came to a close.

    While The Machine had originally attracted considerable attention as a vehicle for HPE to commercialize memristors, it is a much broader architectural testbed. This first generation of hardware can use any standard DDR4 DIMM-based memories, volatile or non-volatile. And while large, non-volatile memory pools are interesting research targets, HPE realizes that it …

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  • Drilling Down Into The Machine From HPE

    January 4, 2016 Mark Funk

    It has been roughly a year and a half since Hewlett Packard Enterprise first announced its intent to create a completely different kind of a system. The company may have announced it then, but you can bet that its researchers and engineers had long been playing with integrating many of the very concepts that you have been reading about recently in The Next Platform. High on this list would include the now simple realization that technology was soon to be developed that would allow the basic organization of computer systems that we have had forever to change.

    It wasn’t …

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  • Memristors Mimic Brains For Massive Machine Learning

    July 8, 2015

    If you think that Hewlett-Packard is disappointed about the delays in getting the memristor to market, so is a tenacious inventor who has been working at the confluence of electronics and machine learning. Alex Nugent, who has been involved in a number of machine learning projects with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, including the SyNAPSE project that was eventually shepherded through several phases of development by IBM, has uncloaked a startup dedicated to using memristors at the heart of a new kind of analog computer that does what he says is a better job mimicking the function …

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