Distributed Storage Research

Distributed Storage Research (DSR) team leverages its knowledge of storage, operating, and distributed systems to empower cloud computing, high-performance computing, and AI ecosystems. Our research aims to create efficient, scalable, resilient, and secure storage solutions to handle the rapid growth of digital information and the diverse requirements of various applications and infrastructures.

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Research Topics

Our research is directed towards building efficient, reliable, and secure storage systems.

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Publications

Explore DSR groundbreaking publications in distributed storage research.

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Projects

DSR is involved in several research projects aimed at delivering novel storage solutions.

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LATEST NEWS

May 13, 2026

Best poster award

Our poster (of the paper) "MinatoLoader: Accelerating Machine Learning Training Through Efficient Data Preprocessing" won the best poster award at EuroSys 2026!

May 04, 2026

Accepted Paper

Our paper "It Works on My Machine: A Systematization of Knowledge on Reproducibility and Replicability in ML-Based Ransomware Detection" was accepted at the WORMA'26 workshop, co-located with IEEE EuroS&P'26!

April 09, 2026

MSc Defense

Gonçalo Manuel Maia de Sousa has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Efficient fault tolerant storage solutions for AI training in HPC". Congratulations!

• MinatoLoader won the best poster award at EuroSys 2026 (2026)

• Rahma Nouaji presenting MinatoLoader at EuroSys 2026 (2026)

• Visiting researcher Hans P. Reiser on his last day in our lab (2025)

• Visiting researcher Alexis Gonzalez on his last day in our lab (2025)

• Ricardo Macedo given a talk on "Improving AI training energy efficiency
  through Workload-Aware GPU Tuning" at CENTRA (2025)

• Cláudia Brito presenting the ESDM project at CENTRA (2025)

• Ricardo Macedo presenting the PASM project at CENTRA (2025)

• Tânia Esteves and João Paulo visinting AIST in Japan (2024)

• Mariana Miranda presenting her work at the SC24 IXPUG Workshop (2024)

• Cláudia Brito and José Pedro Peixoto visinting the FIU University in the EUA (2024)

• Jason Haga and Tanimura-san visiting our lab (2024)

• Jason Haga presenting AIST at our lab (2024)

• Maria Ramos presenting the LazyFS system at VLDB (2024)

• Visiting researcher Rahma Nouaji on her last day in our lab (2024)

• PhD defense of Cláudia Brito (2024)

• Visiting researcher Rahma Nouaji in Braga Romana (2024)

• PhD defense of Tânia Esteves (2024)

• Jason Haga presenting the ESDM project at CENTRA (2024)

• Tânia Esteves presenting the CRIBA system at SRDS (2023)

• Tânia Esteves presenting the DIO system at DCDS (2023)

• PhD defense of Ricardo Macedo (2023)

• Oana Balmau presenting her work at our lab (2022)

• João Paulo presenting the Monarch system at CCGRID (2022)

• Ricardo Macedo presenting the PAIO system at FAST (2022)

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