News

• Jul 2024 Our paper “When Amnesia Strikes: Understanding and Reproducing Data Loss Bugs with Fault Injection” led by Maria Ramos and João Azevedo, and made in collaboration with Jepsen (Kyle Kingsbury), was accepted at VLDB 2024!
• Oct 2023 Our paper “Toward a practical and timely diagnosis of applications’ I/O behavior” led by Tânia Esteves was accepted at the IEEE Access journal.
• Jun 2023 Our paper “Diagnosing applications’ I/O behavior through system call observability” led by Tânia Esteves was accepted at DCDS Workshop, co-located with IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.
• Feb 2023 Our paper “Taming Metadata-intensive HPC Jobs Through Dynamic, Application-agnostic QoS Control” was accepted at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2023. Available on ArXiv.
• Jan 2023 I successfully defended my PhD. Thank you to all members of the jury (Professors Angelo Bilas, Luís Veiga, António Sousa, António Teixeira, João Fernandes, and João Paulo), to my advisors (Professor João Paulo and Professor José Pereira), my many collaborators, and to my family and friends.
• Jul 2022 We have a new paper on Software-Defined Storage for modern HPC infrastructures, which was accepted at the REX-IO Workshop, co-located with IEEE Cluster Conference.
• Jun 2022 I will give a talk about user-level storage data planes at the ENSD22 Encontro Nacional de Sistemas Distribuídos (slides, abstract).
• May 2022 I will give a talk about user-level storage data planes at the ADAC Applications Working Group Seminar (slides).
• May 2022 I will serve on the Rex-IO ‘22 PC.
• Apr 2022 I will give a talk on building user-level storage data planes at the BigHPC Webinar Series (video, slides).
• Feb 2022 Our paper “Accelerating Deep Learning Training Through Transparent Storage Tiering” was accepted at ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2022.
• Jan 2022 Our paper “PAIO: General, Portable I/O Optimizations With Minor Application Modifications” was accepted at USENIX FAST 2022.
• Dec 2021 The PAStor project has come to an end. It was a great exploratory project, with strong set of publications.
• Aug 2021 We have two new papers on Software-Defined Storage for Deep Learning, that were accepted at the REX-IO Workshop, co-located with IEEE Cluster Conference.
• Jun 2021 We have a new paper on ArXiv: “PAIO: A Software-Defined Storage Data Plane Framework”.
• May 2021 Our paper “BDUS: Implementing Block Devices in User Space” was accepted at ACM SYSTOR 2021.
• Oct 2020 The PAStor project just kicked off.
• Oct 2020 I did my research internship at AIST during this summer (August - September).
• Apr 2020 The BigHPC project just kicked off.
• Feb 2020 Our survey on Software-Defined Storage systems was accepted at ACM Computing Surveys journal.
• Oct 2019 Honored to be awarded with a PhD scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
• Oct 2019 Presented our work on Dynamically Programmable Background Tasks at DRSS’19 (co-located with SRDS 2019).