> SSDs as Memory

They've implemented mmap() in hardware. What a time to be alive?!

nb: Related discussion on Samsung's PIM from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487341

This is such a novel and strange device. I can imagine it might be useful for a lot of things, but what? The non-Von Neumann architecture (putting compute next to memory) has been tried many times and AFAIK never taken hold. What would you use this for?