securitybreach Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Hewlett-Packard will take a big step toward shaking up its own troubled business and the entire computing industry next year when it releases an operating system for an exotic new computer, The company’s research division is working to create a computer HP calls The Machine. It is meant to be the first of a new dynasty of computers that are much more energy-efficient and powerful than current products. HP aims to achieve its goals primarily by using a new kind of computer memory instead of the two types that computers use today. The current approach originated in the 1940s, and the need to shuttle data back and forth between the two types of memory limits performance..... A working prototype of The Machine should be ready by 2016, says Bresniker. However, he wants researchers and programmers to get familiar with how it will work well before then. His team aims to complete an operating system designed for The Machine, called Linux++, in June 2015. Software that emulates the hardware design of The Machine and other tools will be released so that programmers can test their code against the new operating system. Linux++ is intended to ultimately be replaced by an operating system designed from scratch for The Machine, which HP calls Carbon. http://www.technolog...system-in-2015/ The OS is not the real story here. The real story is the storage hardware. There will no longer be RAM and Disk on this system, just memristor storage which is: Faster than DRAM More durable than Flash Cheaper than Flash (or will be eventually) Uses less than %10 of the power Emits far less heat So, context switching would almost be a zero cost operation. Several terabytes of data could be processed in milliseconds, etc.... This will turn modern computer science on it's head! https://www.reddit.c...ne_2015/cmst06y 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 (edited) after the WebOS/touchpad fiasco, I wouldn't go near any such "innovation" from HP. Edited December 14, 2014 by crp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 COOL. I don't s'pose it'll be free or OpenSource. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 COOL. I don't s'pose it'll be free or OpenSource. More than likely considering their past and codename of the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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