Further, in one embodiment, the plurality of nodes may be included within a storlet architecture. For example, the storlet architecture may include a compute engine embedded object storage. In another example, each node within the storlet architecture may have an associated virtualization unit (e.g., a virtual machine, etc.). For instance, the virtualization units may include Linux? containers, a Docker? software container, a ZeroVM? process virtualization, etc.

Further still, in one embodiment, when a computation algorithm is assigned to one of the plurality of nodes, the associated virtualization unit of the node may implement the computation algorithm (e.g., by performing the one or more computation tasks indicated within the computation algorithm, etc.). In another embodiment, the computation algorithm may be deployed by an end user. For example, the computation algorithm may be deployed using a GUI, etc. In another example, the computation algorithm may be deployed utilizing a normal object PUT operation.

Also, in one embodiment, the computation algorithm may be received utilizing hooking. For example, a hook may be placed in a storlet engine execution cycle. In another example, the hook may intercept the computation algorithm as it is received within the storlet architecture.