Keynote speech at 22 Handelsblatt Jahrestagung Strategishes IT-Management 2016, Munich, Germany, 18 January 2016

1. The Machine
– a vision for the future of computing
James Salter, Research Manager
Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, United Kingdom

2. The problem we are facing today
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1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
The end of cheap hardware
Compute is not keeping up
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2009
2013
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Data
(Zettabytes)
Years
Data nearly doubles
every 2 years
(2013-2020)
Transistors
(thousands)
Single-thread
Performance
(SpecINT)
Frequency
(MHz)
Typical Power
(Watts)
Number of
Cores

4. The Past 60 Years
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1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Today
It’s time to rethink
how computers
are built

5. 5
The Machine

6. 6
I/O
Copper

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Copper

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Copper

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10. From processor-centric computing…
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Memory
Memory
Memory
Memory
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
Memory
+
Fabric
…to Memory-Driven Computing

11. Making the memory hierarchy obsolete
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Massive
Memory
Pool
Faster
More cost per bit
Capacity
Flash Accelerator
CPU
registers
L2 cache
L3 cache
Main Memory
SSD
L1 cache
Hard Disk
Network Drive Array
Network Backup
Archive
Processor
Computer
Universal Memory
Network

12. Photonics destroys distance
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Photonics
racks can behave
as a single server
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13. Processor-centric computing
Open Architecture
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Memory
MemoryMemory
Memory
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
GPU
ASIC
Quantum
RISC
V
Open
Architecture
Memory-Driven Computing

14. The Machine security framework
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The first computer with security
built-in from the ground up
Data always protected:
in use, in flight and at rest
Secure boot and firmware
Runtime monitoring
Access control
Low energy encryption
Protect
Giving The Machine the ability to
protect itself, even against
completely unknown threats
Compromised components
Firmware and kernel tampering
Runtime malware monitoring
Monitoring for data leakage
Detect
Always safe, always
recoverable, without sacrificing
performance
Recovery at the firmware layer
OS, application, and data recovery
Systematic recovery at scale with
minimal human intervention
Recover

15. Manageability
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Manageability for The Machine is
automatic and transparent
Shift from Imperative to Declarative
management
Using the power of The Machine
to manage The Machine
Integrated with security
framework
Actionable management system
User requests an end state and the
system calculates and executes the
details – it just works
Leveraging “unlimited memory”
Performing analytics on its own
system information

16. What kind of world becomes possible?

17. Machine Learning that can keep up with the now
Training up-to-date deep neural networks in minutes, not weeks
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Keeping up with
every click, every meme“Tell me the latest news
on the severe weather.”
Contextual ads
Suggested topics
Relevant content

18. Graph analytics time machine
Massive memory and fast fabrics to ingest all data
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Fast graph databases and
the ability to look at things
that change over time
“Are there any emerging
new behaviors in my
network?”
Critical node
Remote users
External users

19. What if we could pre-compute an almost infinite set of “what ifs”?
Optimization over a large search space in real time becomes realistic
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Effectively infinite memory
can simulate large scale
probabilities, just like in game
algorithms
Solve complex problems
before they happen

20. We are only just learning what is possible

21. Thank you
james.salter@hpe.com
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