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How does solid‐state drives cluster perform for distributed file systems: An empirical study

“…As the SSD keeps evolving and its capacity becomes increasingly promising 18,28,19 , its applications become more prevalent and viable in storage systems 29 . With the radical changes it brings to the storage systems, the SSD has attracted more attention by both industry and academic communities30.…”

“…Undoubtedly, as technologies such as big data analytics and cloud computing keep evolving and the amount of data grows up exponentially 16,17 , the SSD cluster would become more crucially important and broadly used. In recent years, the SSD's capacity has been as expected to substantially boost 18,19 , which makes the SSD cluster, originally designed for some special purposes, an attractive choice for general uses in those applications that require high throughput, reliability and scalability as by its way, a type of storage cluster can be constructed effectively with multi-level configuration for SSDs to serve user's diverse needs. Typically, the advocated SSD cluster consists of a small group of storage nodes, each being equipped with a bunch of SSDs.…”

GenStore: a high-performance in-storage processing system for genome sequence analysis

“…In-Storage Processing. Several works propose ISP designs as accelerators for different applications [88, (e.g., in machine learning [147,150,151], pattern processing and read mapping [91,149], and graph analytics [141]), generalpurpose [145,146,[152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163], bulk-bitwise operations using flash memory [164,165], in close integration with FPGAs [90,[166][167][168][169][170], or GPUs [171]. None of these works perform metagenomic analysis nor address the challenges of ISP for metagenomics.…”