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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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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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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Gonçalo Manuel Maia de Sousa has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Efficient fault tolerant storage solutions for AI training in HPC". Congratulations!
André Lucena Ribas Ferreira has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Storage optimizations for distributed AI training in HPC". Congratulations!
The Rescueware project kicked off on January 19 via videoconference. The project aims to develop new protection and recovery solutions against ransomware attacks, specifically tailored to healthcare institutions such as ULSAM.
Project pageAna Rita Vaz has defended her MSc thesis entitled "Characterizing and Predicting the I/O Patterns of HPC Applications". Congratulations!
Miguel de Sousa Braga has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Reducing energy consumption of AI training through phase-aware GPU frequency tuning". Congratulations!
Alexandre Rodrigues Fernandes has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Fine-Grained and Event-Aware Energy Monitoring for Large-Scale Computing Infrastructures". Congratulations!
Carlos Eduardo Machado has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Bridging the Gap: A Comparison of the Design, Efficiency, and Fidelity of eBPF Libraries". Congratulations!
Rui Pedro Oliveira has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Efficient Deduplication for the SPDK Framework". Congratulations!
The paper "No Two Snowflakes Are Alike: Studying eBPF Libraries' Performance, Fidelity and Resource Usage" was accepted at the eBPF'25 workshop, co-located with SIGCOMM'25!
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The paper "Keigo: Co-designing Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores with a Non-Volatile, Concurrency-aware Storage Hierarchy" was accepted at the VLDB'25 conference!
Read the paperJosé Fernandes has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Comprehensive study of the energy impact of LSM-based key-value stores". Congratulations!
Diana Rodrigues has defended her MSc thesis entitled "Controlo energético de GPU em sistemas de Deep Learning". Congratulations!
Mariana Amorim has defended her MSc thesis entitled "SFreq: Controlador de consumo energético para sistemas de armazenamento baseados em SPDK". Congratulations!
Bruno Pareira has defended his MSc thesis entitled "Towards Optimized Development and Testing of Ransomware Detection Solutions". Congratulations!
The paper "Can Current SDS Controllers Scale To Modern HPC Infrastructures?" was accepted at the IXPUG'24 workshop, colocated with the SC conference!
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The paper "When Amnesia Strikes: Understanding and Reproducing Data Loss Bugs with Fault Injection" was accepted at the VLDB'24 conference!
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Sara Pereira has defended her MSc thesis entitled "Towards Fine-grained, Holistic Energy Control in Large-Scale Computing Infrastructures". Congratulations!
Cláudia Brito has defended her PhD thesis entitled "Towards a Privacy-Preserving Distributed Machine Learning Framework". Congratulations!
Tânia Esteves has defended her PhD thesis entitled "Flexible Tracing and Analysis of Applications' I/O Behavior". Congratulations!
The paper "Toward a practical and timely diagnosis of applications' I/O behavior" was accepted at the IEEE Access Journal!
Read the paperThe paper "CRIBA: A Tool for Comprehensive Analysis of Cryptographic Ransomware's I/O Behavior" was accepted at the SRDS'23 conference!
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The paper "Diagnosing applications' I/O behavior through system call observability" was accepted at the DCDS workshop colocated with DSN!
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The paper "Taming Metadata-intensive HPC Jobs Through Dynamic, Application-agnostic QoS Control" was accepted at the CCGrid'23 conference!
Read the paperRicardo Macedo has defended his PhD thesis entitled "User-level Software-Defined Storage Data Planes". Congratulations!
The paper "Accelerating Deep Learning Training Through Transparent Storage Tiering" was presented at the CCGrid'22 conference!
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The paper "PAIO: General, Portable I/O Optimizations With Minor Application Modifications" was presented at the USENIX FAST'22 conference!
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The PAStor and ACTPM projects were concluded with success!
See projectsThe paper "CaT: Content-aware Tracing and Analysis for Distributed Systems" was accepted at the Middleware'21 conference!
Read the paperWe got three new papers accepted at the REX-IO and HPBD Workshops!
See publicationsWe got two papers -- "BDUS: Implementing Block Devices in User Space" and "S2Dedup: SGX-enabled Secure Deduplication" -- accepted at the SYSTOR'21 conference!
See publicationsThe PAStor project started on October 1st and will research new solutions to speedup storage performance for AI-oriented HPC services. We are very happy to be part of this collaboration between INESC TEC, TACC, MACC and Hood College.
Project pageThe paper entitled "GenoDedup: Similarity-Based Deduplication and Delta-Encoding for Genome Sequencing Data", resulting from a collaboration with Vinicius Cogo and Alysson Bessani from LASIGE, was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Read the paperThe BigHPC project kicked off on April 20 via videoconference. With $2M for 3 years, the project will develop new tools for improving the management of storage and computational resources at HPC infrastructures.
Project pageOur survey about software-defined storage was accepted in ACM CSUR
Read the paperRicardo Macedo earned a PhD grant from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia!
We have published two new papers at the DRSS workshop colocated with SRDS'19!
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