The exploration of computation near flash storage has been prompted by the advent of network-attached flash-based storage enclosures operating at tens of gigabytes/sec, server memory bandwidths struggling to keep up with network and aggregate I/O bandwidths, and the ever-growing need for massive data storage, management, manipulation and analysis. Multiple tasks from distributed analytical/indexing functions to data management tasks like compression, erasure encoding, and deduplication are all potentially more performant, efficient and economical when performed near storage devices.