Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced the launch of an incubation practice with specialized skills for solving big data problems through Memory-Driven Computing, leveraging the expertise of Hewlett Packard Labs and HPE Pointnext. Through HPE Pointnext advisory and professional services capabilities, the company will work with leading-edge customers to explore Memory-Driven Computing applications and deliver proofs-of-concept that will demonstrate dramatic performance gains never before possible.

Memory-Driven Computing is a new computing architecture that puts memory, not processing, at the center of the computing platform. Hewlett Packard Labs is developing the breakthrough technology innovations needed to enable Memory-Driven Computing as part of The Machine research project. Using the new architecture, organizations will be able to process vast amounts of data significantly faster and reduce the time to extract insight, from days to hours, hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, ultimately delivering real-time intelligence.

“We believe that all data is valuable. Our vision for Memory-Driven Computing is to enable customers to capture, keep and refine every last bit of their data, up to 10,000 times faster than yesterday’s solutions,” says, Rajesh Dhar, Senior Director, Pointnext, HPE India. “The introduction of HPE Pointnext capabilities for Memory-Driven Computing will accelerate our ability to bring Memory-Driven Computing technologies to our customers and help them solve some of their most complex problems and more quickly than ever before.”

HPE Pointnext has a team of emerging technology and AI experts already working hand-in-hand with its first commercial customer beginning the journey to Memory-Driven Computing, Travel port – a commerce platform that provides distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $7 trillion global travel industry.

Partnering with HPE, Travelport has built out a large-scale compute capability, internally referred to as the “wall of compute,” which has been able to keep pace with the ever-increasing demand of online travel searches. The volume of shopping requests continues to double every 18 months and will reach an average of three shopping requests per month per person on the globe by 2020. Today, that already translates to moving over 125 terabytes of data in and out of its data centers each day.

HPE Pointnext is providing guidance to Travelport around IT deployment strategy, sharing expertise and learnings from previous proofs-of-concept to improve their ability to program applications for Memory-Driven Computing environments. Additionally, HPE experts are helping Travelport and future customers identify a performance baseline for infrastructure upgrades, drive cost-benefit analyses for the transformation journey and port, tune, re-architect and refactor applications for Memory-Driven Computing.

The Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox will feature HPE Superdome Flex with Software-Defined Scalable Memory, a new system enhancement under development and key technology output of The Machine research project. Software-Defined Scalable Memory includes new software and firmware advances that enable the industry-leading Superdome Flex memory fabric to address significantly larger pools of shared memory than previously possible. The technology provides the ability to compose memory on the fabric and offers the ability to scale to 96 terabytes, all while offering faster and more resilient performance.

As part of its strategy to commercialize innovations from The Machine research project, HPE will look for opportunities to bring select benefits of Memory-Driven Computing-like Software-Defined Scalable Memory-to customers faster.