Meet Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s vision of the future of computing. It’s called simply ‘The Machine’. It’s a radical departure from today’s computer architecture that is being developed HPE’s R&D arm, Hewlett Packard Labs, to deal with the conflicting trajectories of computing hardware and software.
Jaap Suermondt, vice president, software and analytics at HPE, who is responsible for The Machine’s software stack and applications, told Computerworld Australia that it was designed to cater for the growing requirement to perform analytics on every-larger datasets at the same time as the annual doubling price/performance in line with Moore’s Law is coming to an end.
“By every indication we are seeing Moore’s Law starting to slow down,” he said. “On the one hand you have data that keeps growing exponentially, and on the other you have computing power that is not keeping up.”
