The Goal of HP’s Radical The Machine: Reshaping Computing Around Memory

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…HPE’s goal with The Machine is to build a large pool of persistent memory that application processors can just access.

“We want all the warm and hot data to reside in a very large in-memory domain,” Wheeler said. “At the software level, we are trying to eliminate a lot of the shuffling of data in and out of storage.”

Removing that kind of overhead will accelerate the processing of enormous datasets that are becoming increasingly common in the fields of big data analytics and machine learning. 

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