Hewlett Packard Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for

Hewlett Packard Enterprise The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas, United States. HPE was founded on November 1, 2015, in Palo Alto, California, as part of the splitting of the ...

and its businesses. It was formed in November, 2015 when

HP Labs HP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for HP Inc. HP Labs' headquarters is in Palo Alto, California and the group has research and development facilities in Bristol, UK. The development of programmable desktop calculators, ink ...

spun off Hewlett Packard Labs to reflect the spin off of Hewlett Packard Enterprise from

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(formerly Hewlett-Packard). The lab is located in

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History

HP Labs was established on March 3, 1966, by founders

Bill Hewlett William Redington Hewlett ( ; May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Early life and education Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where hi ...

and

David Packard David Packard ( ; September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board (1964–68 ...

, seeking to create an organization not bound by day-to-day business concerns. In August 2007, HP executives drastically diminished the number of projects, down from 150 to 30. On November 1, 2015,

spun off Hewlett Packard Labs into a separate organization managed by

with Martin Fink becoming the director. In 2014, CTO Martin Fink Labs announced a computer architecture research project called The Machine. The project focused on a "memory-centric" computer based on a pool of

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memory connected to special purpose cores using a photonics interconnect. An early prototype was produced in 2016 consisting of 320TB of NUMA

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memory, dozens of off the shelf processors and a Gen-Z based interconnect. Since then, HPE has been working on bringing various aspects to their product lines.

Directors

The following have served as Director of Hewlett Packard Labs since its foundation in 1966 as HP Labs.{{Cite web, url=https://www.labs.hpe.com/former-directors, title=Former Directors * Barney Oliver (1966–81) *John Doyle (1981–84) *Joel Birnbaum (1984–86 and 1991–99) *Don Hammond (1986–87) *Frank Carrubba (1987–91) *Ed Karrer (1999) *Dick Lampman (1999–2007) *

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(2007–2012) *Chandrakant Patel (interim; April 7, 2012 – Nov 2012) *Martin Fink (2012–2016) *Mark Potter (2016–2020) *Andrew Wheeler (2020-Present)

References

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