HP Unveils Revolutionary Computer That Could Shrink A Data Center To The Size Of A Refrigerator

Business Insider ^ | 06/12/2014 | Julie Bort

[fulltlt]

Too big. I want one that does all this that fits in my pocket.

[ShadowAce]

[unixfox]

Just what the NSA needs.

[precisionshootist]

Too big. I want one that does all this that fits in my pocket.

LMAO!

[Norm Lenhart]

And then Skynet became self aware....

I mean we already have Big Dog and HK type drones...what could go wrong? ;)

[Sacajaweau]

Honestly, I can’t fit anymore in my fridge.

[mountn man]

[GraceG]

[ And then Skynet became self aware....

I mean we already have Big Dog and HK type drones...what could go wrong? ;) ]

Just give me a way to data dump a copy of my Brain’s memory ingrams into this thing...

That way I can post here at twice the rate.

[PoloSec]

"Too big. I want one that does all this that fits in my pocket."

Patience...coming soon!

[Norm Lenhart]

I’d love it. Then I could torment the Cheshires all the more with random acts of conservative philosophy ;)

[SeeSharp]

the machine uses a new homegrown operating system

I'm more curious about that than I am about the hardware.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Guaranteed it's based on a flavor of BSD.

[SeeSharp]

Guaranteed it's based on a flavor of BSD.

How do you know? HP owns a stable of main frame class operating systems now: openVMS, Tandem Himalaya, Ultrix, the HP version of Unix (whatever that was). They are capable of cranking out something a little more substantial than BSD.

[Hot Tabasco]

Revolutionary Computer That Could Shrink A Data Center To The Size Of A Refrigerator

Just make sure nobody's inside when they flip the switch.......

[sten]

to provide the computing capacity of an entire data center in a single rack would mean at least 100x better then the current tech

that seems a bit far fetched

[EQAndyBuzz]

I think they are not taking into consideration switches, routers and other comms gear. But strictly from virtualization, disk and the OS that runs it, why not?

I have “one rack” in my data center with 120tb of storage capacity and the servers to carve it all up.

[Vinnie]

They have a server system now that is enclosed in a POD size container.
They bring it in on the back of a truck, drop it off in the parking lot, run some cables to it and away it goes. Can be hooked up in parallel with other PODs.
The thing that gets me, no mechanical cooling of the PODs. I used to be in the business and can’t get my mind around that.

[The KG9 Kid]

HP-UX is HP's Unix.

And I'm pretty sure that system isn't running VMS. ;)

[Smokin' Joe]

It doesn’t matter. Microsoft will find a way to bloat it up and then toss the OS for the next version, released one a year until the one that worked is 4 versions back, and then tweak it to only run on a new box.