ARRAY-BASED COMPUTATIONS ON A STORAGE DEVICE

摘要

An instruction from an application server to perform a computation is received at a network-attached storage (NAS) device. The computation uses arrays of data that are stored by the NAS device as inputs. The instruction includes remote procedure calls that identify operations that are included in the computation, including a first remote procedure call that will cause the NAS device to perform a read operation on a first file containing an array of data to be used as an input for the computation, and a second remote procedure call that will cause the NAS device to perform an array operation using the array of data. The operations are executed on the NAS device to produce a result that is stored in a second file in a location in a file system managed by the NAS device and accessible to the application server.