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Losing memory hard drive! HP finally released Black technology

Global computer industry sunset, PC lingered in the shadow of smartphones, established computer maker Hewlett-Packard, brunt. However, HP do not share computers or computers with this product will die.

According to the United States Science and technology news Web site, "technology review" report, HP has convened more than 100 research personnel, computer design concepts to overthrow the established since the 1940 's, and is working on new computers and operating systems, which HP will abandon the practice of memory and hard drive set up a separate, unified by a storage device.

HP this plan was very ambitious, involving new computer or server hardware, new operating systems, new computers may no longer use Microsoft's Windows operating system.

According to reports, the new computer in the HP internal development code-named "machine" (TheMachine). HP hopes "machines" to open a new chapter in the history of computing, the computer is more powerful, in addition to more energy savings.

Since the 1940 's, computer design, memory and hard disk is divided into two kinds of storage media, including faster memory access, used to hold temporary data, a slow hard disk access, computer data used to save permanent.

HP's "machine" the biggest breakthrough, will cancel the memory and hard drive of conventional storage concepts, and HP will adopt a unified storage media, replace the memory and hard drive. It is reported that if current frequent data transfer between memory and hard disk in your computer and transfer was cancelled, you can greatly increase the processing speed of the computer.

"The machine" project Chief Architect Bouhnik (KirkBresniker) that the invention during the construction of the computer models are still ubiquitous today, which has hindered the development of the modern computer.

According to reports, the "machine" within the project by Hewlett-Packard Company "HP Labs" to take, at present, all 200 engineers in the lab, three-fourths is working on "machines".

Bouhnik said CEO Whitman himself for this new computer research and development also supports, through increased research and development spending, but Bouhnik hasn't disclosed "the machine" project's research and development budget.

It was reported that HP's research and development of new computers, main rival is Google, Facebook and other Internet giants used a large number of servers in the data center, but Bouhnik said new computer designs, can be used in smaller computing devices in the future.

"The machine" will be a huge project, HP must elevate in terms of hardware and software design to a whole new level. Especially in terms of hardware, HP new alternative memory and hard disk storage media named "memory resistor" electronic parts, in the field of new storage media, HP still needs substantial improvement and upgrading.

Bouhnik said, "the machine" the first prototype of the project, will be launched in 2016. But until that happens, Bouhnik hopes more third-party hardware and software developers, to familiarize themselves with the new computer.

HP also will develop a new operating system for the new computer , called "Linux++", the system will be in 2015, fixing.

At that time, HP will be provided to a third party developer can simulate new computer simulation software, for testing their application software.

According to reports, in Hewlett-Packard's plan, the "Linux++" were merely a temporary operating system, HP will also be developed from scratch called "Carbon" operating system, to adapt to the new computer.

Bouhnik said the Linux++ operating system, and software developers in participation will help them to become familiar with Hewlett-Packard's new "machines", help h-p's development work. HP will also in the future the development groups is described in more detail, such as the existing application software in the "machine" for maximum performance.

In a traditional computer, software application and file data in the hard disk or Flash drive, software and processes in each run, the computer you first need to transfer data from your hard drive to a faster memory, and when blackouts, memory data could not be saved. This data back and forth, "move", affect the operation of the computer.

HP under the "memristor" research and development of new storage media, you can save the data after power failure, different speed faster than memory, compared with the same size hard drive, you can save more data.

"The machine" also includes other innovative designs in various parts of the computer, for example when transferring data, using optical fiber instead of traditional copper wire.

Hewlett-Packard's test showed that based on the "machines" design of server will be six times faster than similar server performance, the volume is only one-tenth, use only 1.25% of power.

United States Georgia Tech Professor UmakishoreRamachandran said that Hewlett-Packard's design of a new computer will access Internet giants such as Google's attention, because they are in the world, with a large number of data centers, the installation of a huge server, Google and Facebook, you want the server to a more powerful, more energy savings.

However, the researchers also said that new computer and a new operating system means it might adopt a completely new approach to developing software applications.

In recent years, companies such as Intel, Google, Amazon, and has been the transformation of traditional computer, trying to improve performance, reduce power consumption. As in "super" in the reference designs, Intel hopes to use Flash-based solid state drives, replace the traditional mechanical hard drives, improve PC performance, but this effort did not succeed, and a lot of computers on the market, are still not out of mechanical hard disk.

It should be noted that is Hewlett-Packard's goal is ambitious, but the task is daunting, insiders about whether this new type of computer can be successfully developed, to be questioned. It is reported that, just based on the "memristor" research and development of new storage, HP Labs has fallen behind schedule.