Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Heh, yes, it's a puff-piece, based on HP's publicity, not an in-depth review. Considering that The Machine isn't publicly available yet, that's hardly surprising.
There's a talk here that goes into a bit more detail, although still not much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbMSR9vA-c The basic ideas seem to be: 1) An extremely large number of CPU cores, many of them specialised for particular tasks. 2) A single form of high speed, non-volatile memory, of very large capacity, replacing cache, RAM, disk, flash, etc. 3) A high-speed optical connection between the CPUs and the memory. They claim to be able to retrieve any desired byte out of a petabyte of storage in 250ns. That's nice, but the question that comes to my mind is: What happens when a zillion cores are all competing for high-speed access to that memory? -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
