1. Even with multi-terabyte local disk sub-systems and multi-petabyte archives, I/O can become a bottleneck in HPC.
2. Users download 10x more data than needed
3. While data volumes grow,network bandwidth does not at the same rate, and hence serving such data efficiently is a challenge. Therefore, service flexibility like subsetting and other processing on server side prior to their shipping is more and more considered indispensable.
4. Server must mediate between access patterns.
5. 80% of all data have some spatial connotation.
6. Arrays at the heart of large-scale scientific data analytics, along withgraphs (incl meshes), sets, trees.