DelwinAmber
Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs
on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:03AM (#8047549)
It can be argued that their patent portfolio was worth about that much.
Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:38PM (#7879636)
Yes. On Linux it's /dev/shm and it is a ramdisk that you can access from multiple processes.
IPC (Inter-Process Communication) is a known technology. This won't change it much if at all.
Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:36PM (#7879624)
There's a huge difference between the lab and a production model.
Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:35PM (#7879620)
There will always be a place for yet faster memory. Does this compete with the registers and L1/L2 cache in terms of speed?
Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:34PM (#7879614)
CPU's may end up looking more like GPU's with thousands of registers.
Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
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.