Mariana Martins Miranda

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Modern I/O applications that run on HPC infrastructures are increasingly becoming read and metadata intensive. However, having multiple applications submitting large amounts of metadata operations can easily saturate the shared parallel file system's metadata resources, leading to overall performance degradation and I/O unfairness. We present PADLL, an application and file system agnostic storage middleware that enables QoS control of data and metadata workflows in HPC storage systems. It adopts ideas from Software-Defined Storage, building data plane stages that mediate and rate limit POSIX requests submitted to the shared file system, and a control plane that holistically coordinates how all I/O workflows are handled. We demonstrate its performance and feasibility under multiple QoS policies using synthetic benchmarks, real-world applications, and traces collected from a production file system. Results show that PADLL can enforce complex storage QoS policies over concurrent metadata-aggressive jobs, ensuring fairness and prioritization.

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The Software-Defined Storage (SDS) paradigm has emerged as a way to ease the orchestration and management complexities of storage systems. This work aims to mitigate the storage performance issues that large-scale HPC infrastructures are currently facing by developing a scalable and dependable control plane that can be integrated into an SDS design to take full advantage of the tools this paradigm offers. The proposed solution will enable system administrators to define storage policies (e.g., I/O prioritization, rate limiting) and, based on them, the control plane will orchestrate the storage system to provide better QoS for data-centric applications.

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Modern large-scale I/O applications that run on HPC infrastructures are increasingly becoming metadata-intensive. Unfortunately, having multiple concurrent applications submitting massive amounts of metadata operations can easily saturate the shared parallel file system's metadata resources, leading to unresponsiveness of the storage backend and overall performance degradation. To address these challenges, we present PADLL, a storage middleware that enables system administrators to proactively control and ensure QoS over metadata workflows in HPC storage systems. We demonstrate its performance and feasibility by controlling the rate of both synthetic and realistic I/O workloads. Results show that PADLL can dynamically control metadata-aggressive workloads, prevent I/O burstiness, and ensure I/O fairness and prioritization.

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Secure deduplication allows removing duplicate content at third-party storage services while preserving the privacy of users' data. However, current solutions are built with strict designs that cannot be adapted to storage service and applications with different security and performance requirements. We present S2Dedup, a trusted hardware-based privacy-preserving deduplication system designed to support multiple security schemes that enable different levels of performance, security guarantees and space savings. An in-depth evaluation shows these trade-offs for the distinct Intel SGX-based secure schemes supported by our prototype. Moreover, we propose a novel Epoch and Exact Frequency scheme that prevents frequency analysis leakage attacks present in current deterministic approaches for secure deduplication while maintaining similar performance and space savings to state-of-the-art approaches.