Reminds me of the old Auspex file servers, with their functional processing units. For a while CPUs got fast enough to do everything. Then they didn't, and GP

Reminds me of the old Auspex file servers, with their functional processing units. For a while CPUs got fast enough to do everything. Then they didn't, and GPUs became a thing (though they had been something of a thing back in the 80s too, like the Amiga blitter), and now we're putting CPUs in storage controllers. The pendulum has swung a few times.