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![]() ![]() This dissertation proposes a system called Active Disks that takes advantage of the processing power on individual disk drives to run applicationlevel code. Sadly, advances in I/O performance have lagged the development of commodity processor and memory technology, putting pressure on systems to deliver data fast enough for these types of data-intensive analysis. As more and more of the information in the world becomes digitally available, and more and more of our daily activities are recorded and stored, people are increasingly finding value in analyzing, rather than simply storing and forgetting, these large masses of data. Today's commodity disk drives, the basic unit of storage for computer systems large and small, are actually small computers, with a processor, memory, and `network' connection, along with the spinning magnetic material that permanently stores the data. ![]()
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