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

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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

08 Oct 2026

Paper

Paper Accepted at Middleware'26

Our paper "A Tale of Scale: Enabling Scalable and Holistic Storage QoS for Exascale HPC Systems" was accepted at the 27th ACM International Middleware Conference (Middleware'26)!

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07 Oct 2026

Award

Pedagogical Merit Recognition for Prof. João Paulo

Prof. João Paulo received the Diploma of Recognition of Pedagogical Merit (Diploma de Reconhecimento de Mérito Pedagógico) in the Department of Informatics, awarded at the ceremony celebrating the 51st anniversary of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM). Congratulations!

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04 Aug 2026

Paper

Paper Accepted at SBAC-PAD'26

Our paper "Phoning Home: Repatriating output from cloud jobs with a user-level, provider-agnostic data transfer tool" was accepted at the 38th IEEE/SBC International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'26)!

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• Carlos Machado presenting his poster at eBPF'26, co-located with SOSP 2026 (2026)

• Rui P. Oliveira presenting his PhD work at SysDW'26, co-located with SOSP 2026 (2026)

• Our paper "It Works on My Machine" won the best presentation award at WoRMA 2026 (2026)

• Bruno Pereira presenting our paper "It Works on My Machine" at WoRMA 2026, co-located with EuroS&P (2026)

• 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)

• Carlos Machado presenting our paper "No Two Snowflakes Are Alike" at eBPF'25 (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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