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

September 01, 2021

Accepted Paper

We got three new papers accepted at the REX-IO and HPBD Workshops!

May 21, 2021

Accepted Paper

We got two papers -- "BDUS: Implementing Block Devices in User Space" and "S2Dedup: SGX-enabled Secure Deduplication" -- accepted at the SYSTOR'21 conference!

October 10, 2020

Project Kickoff

The 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.

• 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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