Selective compression of objects in a storage compute device

A method, comprising:

• receiving a command via a host interface of a storage compute device to perform a computation on one or more data objects, the computation producing intermediate objects that are stored in data storage section of the storage compute device;
• making a determination to compress and decompress the intermediate objects as they are moved between the data storage section and a compute section based on wear of a storage medium being reduced in response thereto;
• and
• compressing and decompressing the intermediate objects as they are moved between the data storage section and the compute section in response to the determination.

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium configured with instructions executable by a processor of a storage compute device to perform:

• receiving, via a host interface of the storage compute device, a command to perform a computation on one or more data objects, the computation producing intermediate objects that are stored in data storage section of the storage compute device;
• making a determination to compress and decompress the intermediate objects as they are moved between the data storage section and a compute section based on wear of a storage medium being reduced in response thereto;
• and
• directing compression hardware to compress and decompress the intermediate objects as they are moved between the data storage section and the compute section in response to the determination.