NEWS ~ The first hard drive doped with Artificial Intelligence!

     

    In the United States, a university professor and his students have developed the first chip based on machine learning to optimize storage and reading on hard drives. This AI allows for more capacity and less latency when accessing data.

    With more and more data, mechanical hard drives remain the real workhorses of high-tech. More and more storage capacity is needed, especially in the cloud. Whether it's to use the apps on a smartphone or any other connected gadget, or to manage what the sensors in a city or in industry are collecting, nothing can work without a real-time reading of this data, and an artificial intelligence is left to grind in a vacuum.

    The problem is that a hard disk is actually quite rudimentary. The data is crammed in a bit haphazardly and is stored in a scattered manner all over the memory. Despite fast hard drives, the time to access this sometimes essential data remains problematic, especially when this data is stored in the cloud.

    So the obvious idea is to increase performance by optimizing storage. Easy to say, but doing it is more complicated. This is the challenge that a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, USA, has taken up with his students.

Reduce latency, increase storage capacity:

    To achieve this, they have developed a chip that analyzes data to directly optimize its storage. The technology is based on an artificial intelligence that learns by itself how to better manage the information to optimize its storage and reading. On an ordinary hard disk, the data recorded on the magnetic layer is identified using signal processing technology. With the help of AI, the storage process is optimized, with less loss of storage space, and performance is improved.

     In the end, even in the cloud, the latency to call data can be reduced with this process. This chip, based on a neural network, should arrive before the end of the year as a physical prototype in the university's lab. This potentially revolutionary development is being watched closely by hard drive manufacturers who say they are even surprised that a university lab was able to create such a prototype.

 

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