Projects

DisaggregatedHPC: Towards energy-efficient, software-managed resource disaggregation in HPC infrastructures

Co-coordinator
2025 – Present
Research on designing a software-managed resource disaggregation framework for large-scale HPC infrastructures.
Partners: INESC TEC, NARLabs.

CDMS: Claim Denial Management Solution

Local coordinator
2025 – Present
Research in new storage and operating system building blocks for improving the performance and energy efficiency of LLM training in HPC infrastructures.
Partners: GetEffy, RandyLabs, INESC TEC, CUF.
Project reference: COMPETE2030-FEDER-01193000/17409

PASM-CENTRA: Performance and Sustainability Management in Modern Data Centers

Coordinator
2024 – Present
Research on designing new building block fitted for the performance and sustainability requirements of modern, large-scale infrastructures.
Partners: INESC TEC, AIST, FIU.

BDC.S+M: Modular Blockchain Data Storage and Management System with AI

Researcher
2024 – Present
Research in multi-backend storage systems and techniques for distributed storage, focusing on the performance and efficient usage of compute resources.
Partners: INESC TEC, InvisibleLab.
Project reference: NORTE2030-FEDER-00584600/14436

SustainableHPC: Computação de elevado desempenho sustentável

Researcher
2021 – Present
Research in new energy management systems for improving the energy efficiency of large scale HPC infrastructures.
Partners: INESC TEC, INEGI.

BigHPC: A Management Framework for Consolidated Big Data and HPC

Researcher
2020 – 2023
Research and development of Software-Defined Storage systems to improve performance isolation, QoS, and fairness in converged HPC and Big Data infrastructures.
Project reference: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045924

PAStor: Programmable and Adaptable Storage for AI-oriented HPC Ecosystems

Researcher
2020 – 2021
Research and development of a Software-Defined Storage data plane for improving I/O performance of AI-powered applications in HPC infrastructures.
Project reference: UTA-EXPL/CA/0075/2019

CENTRA: Efficient and Secure Data Management for HPC and Cloud Computing

Researcher
2018 – Present
Research and development of Software-Defined Storage systems to improve the programmability and configurability of HPC and Cloud Computing infrastructures.
Project reference: http://www.globalcentra.org/projects/#prv

IBM Research Haifa — Joint Study Agreement

Researcher
2018 – 2019
Research and development of a programmable and modular stackable file system framework for implementing secure content-aware storage functionalities over hardware-assisted trusted execution environments.

SafeCloud Project

Researcher
2016 – 2017
Design, development, and evaluation of a privacy-preserving framework for NoSQL databases. Integration with a SQL query engine in order to provide secure computation over real-time SQL-based applications.
Project reference: H2020-DS-2014-1/653884