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

06 Jul 2026

Award

Best Presentation Award at WoRMA 2026

Our paper "It Works on My Machine: A Systematization of Knowledge on Reproducibility and Replicability in ML-Based Ransomware Detection" won the best presentation award at WoRMA 2026!

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13 May 2026

Award

Best Poster Award at EuroSys 2026

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

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04 May 2026

Paper

Paper Accepted at WoRMA'26

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!

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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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