It consists of presentations of research work in parallel systems, distributed systems, distributed computing, high-performance computing, and high-performance data analytics. Usually, the seminar takes place every Friday at 10 a.m. at TSP/Palaiseau. The PDS seminar consists of three types of presentations:
If you want to receive announcements about upcoming seminars, please send an email to Gaël Thomas or François Trahay.
For master’s students, attending some of the seminars is mandatory. The mandatory seminars have the icon. You can download a calendar that only contains the mandatory seminars here, or a calendar with all the seminars that indicates which ones are mandatory here.
| When | Type | Speakers | Title |
| 20/2/2026 at 11h30 | Reading group | Corinn Tiffany | TBD |
| 20/2/2026 at 11h00 | Reading group | Mohamed Bayoumi | TBD |
| 20/2/2026 at 10h30 | Reading group | Konstantin Shprenger | Autobahn: Seamless high speed BFT (SOSP'24) |
| 20/2/2026 at 10h00 | Reading group | Stefan Radovanovic | TBD |
| 13/2/2026 at 11h30 | Reading group | Hanan Quispe Condori | TBD |
| 13/2/2026 at 11h00 | Reading group | Aaron Bushnell | Leveraging Graph Analysis to Pinpoint Root Causes of Scalability Issues for Parallel Applications (TPDS'25) |
| 13/2/2026 at 10h30 | Reading group | Bárbara Duarte Batista Da Silva | TBD |
| 13/2/2026 at 10h00 | Reading group | Soulayman Jbari | DAMOV: A New Methodology and Benchmark Suite for Evaluating Data Movement Bottlenecks (IEEE Access) |
| 6/2/2026 at 11h30 | Reading group | Antony Costa Do Amaral | Ilúvatar: A Fast Control Plane for Serverless Computing (HPDC'23) |
| 6/2/2026 at 11h00 | Reading group | Luigi Monteiro Santos Rangel | Batch-Schedule-Execute: On Optimizing Concurrent Deterministic Scheduling for Blockchains (SRDS'24) |
| 6/2/2026 at 10h30 | Reading group | Corinn Tiffany | ghOSt: Fast & Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling (SOSP'21) |
| 6/2/2026 at 10h00 | Reading group | Gejsi Vjerdha | Tiered Memory Management: Access Latency is the Key! (SOSP'24) |
| 30/1/2026 at 11h30 | Reading group | Pawel Lacek | MemLiner: Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi22/presentation/wang) |
| 30/1/2026 at 11h00 | Reading group | Mohamed Bayoumi | CrossFS: A Cross-layered Direct-Access File System (OSDI'20) |
| 30/1/2026 at 10h30 | Reading group | Konstantin Shprenger | Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies (SOSP'17) |
| 30/1/2026 at 10h00 | Team work | Guillermo Toyos Marfurt | Pending Conflicts Make Progress Impossible |
| 23/1/2026 at 11h30 | Reading group | Soulayman Jbari | Split Write DRAM: Reducing DRAM Access Latency by Mitigating Read-Write Interference (MemSys'25) |
| 23/1/2026 at 11h00 | Reading group | Hanan Quispe Condori | Snitch: A tiny Pseudo Dual-Issue Processor for Area and Energy Efficient Execution of Floating-Point Intensive Workloads (Transactions on Computers) |
| 23/1/2026 at 10h30 | Reading group | Stefan Radovanovic | Process-as-a-Service: Unifying Elastic and Stateful Clouds with Serverless Processes (SoCC'24) |
| 23/1/2026 at 10h00 | Team work | Lucas Van Lanker | Predicting GPU kernel’s performance on upcoming architectures (EuroPar'24) |
| 16/1/2026 at 11h30 | Reading group | Antony Costa Do Amaral | Pocket: Elastic Ephemeral Storage for Serverless Analytics (OSDI'18) |
| 16/1/2026 at 11h00 | Reading group | Aaron Bushnell | Using sample-based time series data for automated diagnosis of scalability losses in parallel programs (PPoPP'20) |
| 16/1/2026 at 10h30 | Reading group | Bárbara Duarte Batista Da Silva | xPUE: Extending Power Usage Effectiveness Metrics for Cloud Infrastructures (IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing) |
| 16/1/2026 at 10h00 | Team work | Tara Aggoun | VoliMap: Optimizing Key-Value Store Performance by Leveraging User-Space Page Tables |
| 9/1/2026 at 10h30 | Reading group | Luigi Monteiro Santos Rangel | Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Reliable Broadcast Algorithms With Reinforcement Learning (IEEE Access) |
| 9/1/2026 at 10h00 | Team work | François Trahay | Why Globally Re-shuffle? Revisiting Data Shuffling in Large Scale Deep Learning (IPDPS'22) |
| 12/12/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Pawel Lacek | ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA (SIGMOD'22) |
| 12/12/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Gejsi Vjerdha | Ditto: An Elastic and Adaptive Memory-Disaggregated Caching System (SOSP'23) |
| 12/12/2025 at 10h00 | Team work | Nevena Vasilevska | A software-controlled hardware cache |
| 5/12/2025 at 11h30 | Reading group | Mohamed Bayoumi | Rearchitecting linux storage stack for µs latency and high throughput (OSDI'21) |
| 5/12/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Konstantin Shprenger | Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency And Robustness (FC'24) |
| 5/12/2025 at 10h00 | Invited talk | Stefania Dumbrava | An Introduction to Graph Databases |
| 28/11/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Hanan Quispe Condori | Supporting RISC-V Performance Counters Through Linux Performance Analysis Tools (ASAP'23) |
| 28/11/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Stefan Radovanovic | RainbowCake: Mitigating Cold-starts in Serverless with Layer-wise Container Caching and Sharing (ASPLOS '24) |
| 28/11/2025 at 10h00 | Team work | Ayush Pandey | Coordination-free graph replication with Invariant preservation |
| 21/11/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Aaron Bushnell | Pilgrim: scalable and (near) lossless MPI tracing (SC'21) |
| 21/11/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Bárbara Duarte Batista Da Silva | Smartwatts: Self-calibrating software-defined power meter for containers (CCGrid'20) |
| 14/11/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Soulayman Jbari | RowClone: Fast and Energy-Efficient In-DRAM Bulk Data Copy and Initialization (MICRO'13) |
| 14/11/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Antony Costa Do Amaral | Unifying serverless and microservice tasks with SigmaOS (SOSP'24) |
| 14/11/2025 at 10h00 | Team work | François Trahay | Fine-grain energy consumption modeling of HPC task-based programs (Cluster'25) |
| 7/11/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Luigi Monteiro Santos Rangel | Obstruction-Free Algorithms can be Practically Wait-Free (DISC'05) |
| 7/11/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Corinn Tiffany | Building Bridges: Safe Interactions with Foreign Languages through Omniglot (OSDI'25) |
| 7/11/2025 at 10h00 | Team work | Jean-Francois Dumollard | Fork-nox: a hypervisor embedded in Linux to enforce its security |
| 24/10/2025 at 10h00 | Invited talk | Rémi Bouzel | R&D at Qarnot computing |
| 17/10/2025 at 9h00 | Invited talk | Anne-Cécile Orgerie | Green IT |
| 10/10/2025 at 10h00 | Invited talk | Jean-Thomas Acquaviva | R&D at DDN |
| 3/10/2025 at 10h00 | Invited talk | Patrick Carribault | Research at CEA |
| 26/9/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Pawel Lacek | SWARM: Replicating Shared Disaggregated-Memory Data in No Time (SOSP'24) |
| 26/9/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Gejsi Vjerdha | UMap : Enabling Application-driven Optimizations for Page Management (MCHPC'19) |
| 26/9/2025 at 10h00 | Team work | Adam Chader | téléGC: a barrier-free garbage collector for disaggregated memory |
| 19/9/2025 at 10h00 | Other | | Presentation of the PDS research subjects |
| 12/9/2025 at 10h00 | Other | François Trahay | Introduction to research in Computer Science |
| 26/3/2025 at 14h00 | Invited talk | Stella Bitchebe | SpeedyLoader: Efficient Pipelining of Data Preprocessing and Machine Learning Training |
| 14/3/2025 at 14h00 | Invited talk | Philippe Swartvegher | Ongoing research projects in the TOPAL team |
| 21/2/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Merijn Laks | Increasing FPGA Accelerators Memory Bandwidth with a Burst-Friendly Memory Layout (EEE Transactions on VLSI '24) |
| 21/2/2025 at 10h00 | Reading group | Minh Tung Nguyen | Chop Chop: Byzantine Atomic Broadcast to the Network Limit (OSDI '24) |
| 14/2/2025 at 11h00 | Reading group | Pawel Lacek | AIFM: High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory (OSDI '20) |
| 14/2/2025 at 10h30 | Reading group | Duc Hieu Le | Tabi: An Efficient Multi-Level Inference System for Large Language Models (Eurosys '23) |
| 14/2/2025 at 10h00 | Reading group | Mikhail Anoprenko | Fast quantum byzantine agreement (STOC '05) |
