Interesting stuff, but I'm not really sure what the benefit is to the end-user.
I mean, they're talking like you could offload certain computational tasks to your storage device much like you can do with GPUs now....but given the...err...temporary nature of storage devices in large clusters what happens if a drive fails but it's currently running a task the system needs?
I suppose the main advantage would be the ability to handle tasks like drive-level encryption entirely in hardware rather than relying on the OS to do it.
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