novatechflow | Alexander Alten

This article revisits HPE's The Machine project and the original promise of memristor based universal memory. It explains the idea of memory driven computing, where large pools of persistent memory replace the classic hierarchy of caches, DRAM and external storage. It then analyzes what this means for data platforms, AI workloads and distributed systems design, and how architects can still apply the underlying concepts today using modern non volatile memory, memory fabrics and high density shared memory systems. HPE The Machine, Memristors and the Future of Memory Driven Computing Back in 2014 to 2017 HPE promoted The Machine as a radical rethinking of computer architecture. Instead of building systems around processors and attaching memory and storage, the design started from a very large shared memory pool and placed compute nodes around it. The original plan talked about memristor based non volatile memory, photonic interconnects and a new operating system layer...