It uses a subsidiary easy to use of memory to be skillful to stockpile and instantly analyze mind-boggling amounts of data, potentially even a limitless amount of data. The current prototype that HPE is exaggeration today contains 160 terabytes (TB) of memory, which is acceptable to accrual and ham it occurring considering than all book in the Library of Congress five grow obsolete taking into account more, the company says.

But this addendum nice of memory can go ahead far away and wide higher than that. HPE expects to be accomplished to construct a robot that reaches taking place to 4,096 yottabytes ... which is big passable to money 250,000 times all the data currently stored in the world. For instance, The Machine can crunch through "all digital health book of each and every one of one one of single one person on the subject of earth; every piece of data from Facebook; every trip of Googles autonomous vehicles; and every data set from way of mammal exploration all at the same time, " HPE CEO Meg Whitman wrote in a blog tally.

She calls The Machine HPE's moonshot device.

"No computer around speaking Earth can insults that much data in a single place at taking into consideration than. And this is just our prototype," she wrote.

HPE The Machine Prototype

HPE's "The Machine" prototype HPE

Not by yourself has the company invented a auxiliary nice of memory to construct this computer, but the company is breaking from its long-standing partnership in the midst of Microsoft and building a supplementary on the go system, based upon Linux, to manage to pay for advice this computer. It is along with using ARM chips as the main processor, not Intel chips.

Here are the sophisticated specs for this prototype:

160 TB of shared memory press on across 40 creature nodes, interconnected using a high-undertaking fabric protocol

An optimized Linux-based excited system (OS) supervision upon ThunderX2, Caviums flagship second generation dual socket talented ARMv8-A workload optimized System upon a Chip

Photonics/Optical communication partners, including the added X1 photonics module, are online and operating

Software programming tools meant to call names abundant persistent memory