With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by TkTech on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:27PM (#7879573)

Sensor data is one I would guess. Modern cell phones have an incredible number of sensors in them, but usually don't log the data when it's quickly sampled (accelerometers, background mic), or sample it rarely/slowly (GPS, barometer, ambient lighting) when it is logged. I would personally love to have days, weeks, or months of raw data sampled frequently.

Edit: I'd imagine this is due both to a limited amount of storage, a limited number of writes to current sold-state mediums, and energy usage, all of which this technology appears to solve.

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by DelwinAmber on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:33PM (#7879612)

Energy usage is the huge one - if this is applied to computing and not just storage then maybe.

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by valarauca1 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:46PM (#7880036)

Sensor data is dirt cheap to store. Even at 100 data points per second. It takes 10 seconds to store a kilobyte of data (1000) data points). At 64 bits per point.

1GB/s of streaming data is 10,737,418 channels of 100 point per second 64bit floats.

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