Tim, Kind of scarey really,
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Monday, 18 July 2016 2:56 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: HP's radical new computing design or Singularity here we come! We’re in for very interesting times. I was reading about some applications today designed to run on “the machine”. One was a linux instance that has no distinction between memory or hard disk, everything is just running in addressable memory. Each instance is built with a minimum of a petabyte of assigned storage. Each module in HP’s machine consists of a fabric memory module, a processing module and a fabric switch. These modules all link together in to one big addressable compute space. Their idea is everything will plug in to this eventually, security is implemented from the hardware up instead of added on top like the machines do today. There will be huge blocks of free space for open source use, paid space for company data, shared space for global access, and since it’s built in light instead of electrons it’s just as fast no matter how large and complex the design gets so there’s no theoretical maximum. Like I said, Sky Net.:) You don’t think of HP as being that cutting edge any more but this is a huge deal. It makes you wonder how much longer we’ll be dealing with laptops or phones or tablets or anything recognizable. Sabahattin may be right, the Mac might be going away but to be replaced with something a whole bunch more interesting. On Jul 16, 2016, at 10:12 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com<mailto:doniado...@me.com>> wrote: Wow, Scot, I probably only understand half of that, but it's crazy. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Donna On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:40 PM, Scott Granados <sc...@qualityip.net<mailto:sc...@qualityip.net>> wrote: Absolutely startling developments at HP that may impact us all. It dwarfs what Apple is doing in the cloud or even the idea of the cloud. It’s also probably one of your m ore frightening advertising videos. It’s tied in with Star Trek believe it or not but basically they’re using the idea of the Singularity (AKA Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity). The idea is that instead of processors and nodes in the cloud like we have now there will be a massive pile of addressable memory. They have built this system, memory is stored on fabric made of photons meaning memory is stored on particles of light instead of electrons. This means a base increase of performance over conventional circuits of 1000 times but it gets crazier than that. Once data is stored in photons you can start applying principles of quantum mechanics using ideas like entanglement to instantly transfer data over any distance. Think of a radio wave taking 8 minutes to get from our Sun to our planet in perfect conditions, now imagine modulating one out of two photons in a pair and seeing it’s results over that same distance instantly because information can exceed the speed of light. Imagine HP releasing this to open source developers so unix instances automatically boot with hooks in to this memory fabric, the internet of things starts dumping data in to this system. By 2020 there will be over 30 billion connected devices, that level of connectivity will crush the network as it stands today but ideas like this allow us to progress past Moore’s law right down to the photon level rather than primitive atoms.:) Read a lot more here http://www.labs.hpe.com/research/themachine/ I used to laugh at the idea of computing becoming self aware and intelligent especially by 2029 on the near end or 2045 on the far end. IF possible I used to think it would take hundreds of years especially considering where we started. I’m not laughing any more. I’m wondering if 2029 isn’t to far out? I’m not sure if I’m ready for my computing infrastructure to be alive rather than a thing. Wait until the human machine interfaces become so good that you hard wire your brain right to the network and we’ve got 9 billion brains available for parallel processing. I’m in! For anyone who doubts it, go outside, look at the billion people staring at their phones wandering around the country side staring like zombies in their phones finding Pokemon. This enhanced reality thing, it’s just the primitive start, the model A ford equivalent of it’s time, it’s about to get really really interesting! -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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