Honoring Erik Riedel
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Recognizes the loss of Erik Riedel and announces a memorial 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Elam room for reminiscing and family; outlines a career that spans 30 years in academia and industry service and that pioneered active disks by offloading parts of Postgres to device processors and measuring the real costs and benefits; links that work to modern Samsung computational-storage devices and the NVMe CSD interface; highlights green-storage efforts emphasizing construction-phase carbon and scavenged systems reuse; notes the FAST best paper award renamed for Erik Riedel.
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