Zebin Ren

Ph.D. student, Vrije University Amsterdam

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Storage

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Publications

• Zebin Ren,
• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Padma Apparao,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2025)

Storage-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: What are the Performance, Cost, and I/O Characteristics?

2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)

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• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Zebin Ren,
• Tiziano De Matteis,
• Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2025)

Does Linux Provide Performance Isolation for NVMe SSDs? Configuring cgroups for I/O Control in the NVMe Era

2025 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)

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• Zebin Ren,
• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Tiziano De Matteis,
• Christian Pinto,
• Radu Stoica,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2025)

An I/O Characterizing Study of Offloading LLM Models and KV Caches to NVMe SSD

5th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'25) @ EuroSys 2025

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• Daniele De Sensi,
• Lorenzo Pichetti,
• Flavio Vella,
• Tiziano De Matteis,
• Zebin Ren,
• Luigi Fusco,
• Matteo Turisini,
• Daniele Cesarini,
• Kurt Lust,
• Animesh Trivedi,
• Duncan Roweth,
• Filippo Spiga,
• Salvatore Di Girolamo,
• Torsten Hoefler
• (2024)

Exploring GPU-to-GPU Communication Insights into Supercomputer Interconnects

2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC24)

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• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Dennis Maisenbacher,
• Zebin Ren,
• Nick Tehrany,
• Matias Bjørling,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2024)

Exploring I/O Management Performance in ZNS with ConfZNS++

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR'24)

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• Zebin Ren,
• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2024)

A Systematic Configuration Space Exploration of the Linux Kyber I/O Scheduler

Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf'24@ICPE'24)

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• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Zebin Ren,
• Nick Tehrany,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2024)

ZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone Appends

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

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• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Zebin Ren,
• Nick Tehrany,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2024)

ZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone Appends

4th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'24) @ EuroSys 2024

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• Zebin Ren,
• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Nick Tehrany,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2024)

BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era

ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 24)

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• Zebin Ren,
• Animesh Trivedi
• (2023)

Performance Characterization of Modern Storage Stacks: POSIX I/O, libaio, SPDK, and io_uring

CHEOPS 2023

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Supervised Bachelor Theses

• Darko Vujica,
• Krijn Doekemeijer,
• Zebin Ren,
• Animesh Trivedi,
• Tiziano De Matteis,
• Alexandru Iosup
• (2024)

Exploring Redis Persistence Modes: Introducing AOFUring, an io_uring AOF extension

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Talks

• Zebin Ren
• (2025)

An I/O Characterizing Study of Offloading LLM Models and KV Caches to NVMe SSD

CHEOPS'25, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 31, 2025

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• Zebin Ren
• (2024)

A Systematic Configuration Space Exploration of the Linux Kyber I/O Scheduler

HotCloudPerf'24, London, May 11, 2024

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• Zebin Ren
• (2024)

BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era

ICPE'24, London, May 7-11, 2024

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• Zebin Ren
• (2023)

Performance Characterization of Modern Storage Stacks: POSIX I/O, libaio, SPDK, and io_uring

CHEOPS'23, Rome, Italy, May 8, 2023

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Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Storage Systems, MSc, VU (2020-ongoing)