Technologies for low-latency compression

A compute sled for low-latency compression of data in a data center, the compute sled comprising:

• a hardware accelerator;
• a data compressor to compress, by the hardware accelerator of the compute sled, data to be stored;
• a communication engine to:
• send, to a storage sled, the compressed data to be stored;
• send, to the storage sled, a request for the stored compressed data;
• and
• receive, from the storage sled, the compressed data;
• the data compressor further to decompress, by the hardware accelerator of the compute sled, the compressed data,
• wherein a latency from transmission of the request for the stored compressed data to receipt of the compressed data from the storage sled is greater than a latency for decompression of the compressed data by the hardware accelerator.

One or more machine-readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed, causes a storage sled to:

• receive, from a compute sled, a request for compressed data stored on a storage device of the storage sled;
• retrieve the compressed data from the storage device in response to the request for the
• decompress the compressed data with a low-latency compression algorithm in response to the request for the data;
• and
• send, to the compute sled, the decompressed data in response to the request for the data,
• wherein a latency for retrieval of the compressed data from the storage device is greater than a latency for decompression of the compressed data with the low-latency compression algorithm.

One or more machine-readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed, causes a compute sled to:

• compress, by a hardware accelerator of the compute sled, data to be stored;
• send, to a storage sled, the compressed data to be stored;
• send, to the storage sled, a request for the stored compressed data;
• receive, from the storage sled, the compressed data;
• decompress, by the hardware accelerator of the compute sled, the compressed data,
• wherein a latency from transmission of the request for the stored compressed data to receipt of the compressed data from the storage sled is greater than a latency for decompression of the compressed data by the hardware accelerator.