SSD in-storage computing for list intersection
Jianguo Wang, Dongchul Park, Yang-Suk Kee, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Steven Swanson · 2016
Recently, there has been a renewed interest of in-storage computing in the context of solid state drives (SSDs), called "Smart SSDs." Smart SSDs allow application-specific code to execute inside SSDs. This allows applications to take advantage of the high internal bandwidth that Smart SSDs provide. This work studies the offloading of list intersection into Smart SSDs, because intersection is prominent in both search engines and analytics queries. Furthermore, intersection is interesting because the algorithms are more complex than plain scans; they are affected by multiple parameters, as we show, and provide lessons that can be used in other operations also.