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I remember being excited about The Machine [1] from HP:

"The Machine will be a complete replacement for current computer system architectures. There will be a new operating system, a new type of memory (memristors), and super-fast buses/peripheral interconnects (photonics)."

"HP says it will commercialize The Machine within a few years, “or fall on its face trying.”"

It seems later happened...

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184165-hp-bets-it-all-on...



While HP's "The Machine" specifically appears to never have gone beyond the marketing phase, I think your excitement about the underlying technologies - silicon photonics combined with nonvolative memory combined with resource disaggregation - is valid [0], and they are probably coming.

You can buy NVM today [1], and building systems for resource disaggregation work is an active problem [2].

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast14/technical-sessions/...

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-stor...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-shan.pdf


HP long ago rebranded "The Machine" to be just a powerful regular computer, since they haven't been successful in making viable memristors at scale.

So they will deliver it, it just won't be anything like what they promised.


Later always happens.


Sorry for the typo :)




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