38th Conference · 50th Anniversary

MSST 2024

June 3–7, 2024 — Santa Clara University

2024 Conference

The 38th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology — MSST’s 50th anniversary — held at Santa Clara University, June 3–7, 2024.

Since the conference was founded, in 1974, by the leading national laboratories, MSST (the International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology) has been a venue for massive-scale storage system designers and implementers, storage architects, researchers, and vendors to share best practices and discuss building and securing the world’s largest storage systems for high-performance computing, web-scale systems, and enterprises.

MSST 2024 returned on its 50th anniversary to its home at Santa Clara University, where it was hosted by the School of Engineering, and held from June 3rd through June 7th, 2024.

MSST 2024 was possible thanks to sponsorship and support from SCU’s School of Engineering, and Hammerspace.

June 3rd — Tutorials

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast & Badge Pickup (badge pick-up continues 8:30–4:30)

9:15 – 9:30 Welcome to Analytics for the Storage Practitioner — Gary Grider (LANL)

9:30 – noon — Columnar Analytics

Overview (what, how, ecosystem, implications on storage) — Fernanda Foertter (Voltron Data)

Object Computational Storage Analytics Offload — Qing Zheng (LANL)

Erasured Object Computational Storage Analytics Offload — Donpaul Stephens (AirMettle)

Hardware Accelerated Columnar Analytics Offload — Krishna Maheshwari (Neuroblade)

noon – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 3:00 — Row Analytics

Overview (what, how, ecosystem, implications on storage) — Rob Johnson (Broadcom)

Hardware Accelerated Row analytics offload — Tony Ashfary (PLiops)

Inline Hardware Acceleration for Network Packet Analytics — Phil Chan (Eideticom)

3:30 – 4:30 — GraphDB / Analytics

Overview (what/how/market/ecosystem/storage implications) — Amine Mhedhbi (Polytechnique Montréal)

June 4th — Invited Track

8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast & Badge Pickup

8:30 – 8:45 Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:45 – 10:15 — Computational Storage 1

Open Object Computational Storage Pushdown — Jongryool Kim (SK hynix)

Open pNFS Pushdown — Dominic Manno (LANL)

Hardware Accelerated Computational Storage analytics offload — Krishna Maheshwari (Neuroblade)

11:30 – 12:30 Keynote: Michael Cornwell (Pure) — “Storage Landscapes”

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 — Media Trends

Reinventing Secondary Storage — Steffen Hellmold & Sebastian Kirsch (Cerabyte)

Tape — Nathan Thompson (Spectra)

Flash — Young Paik (Samsung)

3:15 – 4:45 — Data Lakes

Apache Data Lake Ecosystem — Fernanda Foertter (Voltron Data)

Iceberg (Apple/LinkedIn/Stripe) — Alex Merced (Dremio)

Tackling I/O Challenges in Modern Data Lakes — Hope Wang (Alluxio)

4:45 – 5:00 Invited Track Day 1 Wrap-Up — Adam Manzanares (Samsung)

June 5th — Invited Track

8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast & Badge Pickup

8:30 – 8:45 Welcome & Introduction for Day 2

8:45 – 9:45 — A.I. Storage Case Studies 1

AI storage case studies — Hari Kennan (Pure)

AI storage case studies — David Flynn (Hammerspace)

10:00 – 11:30 — A.I. Storage Case Studies 2

All Flash Storage Systems — Devasena Inupakutika (Samsung)

AI storage case studies — Caden Bradbury

AI storage case studies — Andy Pernsteiner (VAST)

11:30 – 12:30 Keynote: Garth Gibson — “Storage for A.I.”

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 — Heterogeneous Workloads

Disaggregated Storage based on NFS/RDMA for AI workload — Sergey Platonov (Xinnor)

pNFS/NFS4.2 Diverse Workloads — Trond Myklebust (Hammerspace)

Scalable Composable NVMe Storage — Matthew Williams (Cerio)

3:15 – 4:45 — Distributed Storage Management

Open Community Distributed Storage Management — Dominic Manno (LANL)

Beyond BeeOND: A Proposal for Composable Storage — Joe McCormick (ThinkparQ)

4:45 – 5:00 Invited Track Day 2 Wrap-Up — Rohan Puri (Samsung)

5:00 – 6:30 Reception

June 6th — Research Track

8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast & Badge Pickup

8:30 – 8:45 Welcome Remarks

8:45 – 9:30 Keynote: Hoshik Kim (VP & Fellow, Memory Systems Research, SK hynix) — “Memory & Storage: The Power of AI”

9:45 – 10:25 — Session 1: Archival Data (Chair: Jonathan Tischio)

Revisiting HDD Rules of Thumb: 1/3 Is Not (Quite) the Average Seek Distance — Best Paper Award Winner [Video] [PDF]
Serkay Olmez (MIT Lincoln Laboratory); John Bent (LANL); Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Yifan Dai (UW–Madison)
BURST: A Chunk-Based Data Deduplication System with Burst-Encoded Fingerprint Matching [Video] [PDF]
Bo Peng, Ziyang Zhang, Jianguo Yao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yingquan (Cody) Wu (SambaNova Systems); Xue Liu (McGill University)

11:00 – noon — Session 2: Long Live the Data (Chair: Peter Desnoyers)

Repair I/O Optimization for Clay Codes via Gray-Code Based Sub-Chunk Reorganization in Distributed Storage Systems [Video] [PDF]
Baijian Ma, Yuchong Hu, Dan Feng (HUST); Ray Wu, Kevin Zhang (Inspur)
Cauchy-Merge: An Efficient Cauchy Matrix based Stripe Merging Method for Reed-Solomon Codes [Video] [PDF]
Huangzhen Xue, Chentao Wu, Jie Li, Minyi Guo (SJTU); Liyang Zhou, Shaoteng Liu, Xiangyu Chen (Huawei)
Minimizing Performance Degradation of RAID Recovery Through Pre-Failure Prediction [Video] [PDF]
Jialin Liu, Yujiong Liang, Yunpeng Song (ECNU); Yina Lv (City University of Hong Kong); Liang Shi (ECNU)

noon – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 — Session 3: Log Structured Session (Chair: Yifeng Zhu)

Prophet: Optimizing LSM-Based Key-Value Store on ZNS SSDs with File Lifetime Prediction and Compaction Compensation [Video] [PDF]
Gaoji Liu, Chongzhuo Yang, Qiaolin Yu, Chang Guo, Zhichao Cao (ASU); Wen Xia (HIT Shenzhen)
SAS-Cache: A Semantic-Aware Secondary Cache for LSM-based Key-Value Stores [Video] [PDF]
Zhang Cao, Chang Guo, Ziyuan Lv, Zhichao Cao (ASU); Anand Ananthabhotla
A GPU-accelerated Compaction Strategy for LSM-based Key-Value Store System [Video] [PDF]
Hao Zhou, Yuanhui Chen, Lixiao Cui, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu (Nankai University)

2:45 – 3:45 — Session 4: Getting Real (Chair: Erez Zadok)

Dissecting I/O Burstiness in Machine Learning Cloud Platform: A Case Study on Alibaba’s MLaaS [Video] [PDF]
Qiang Zou (Guangxi Minzu University); Yuhui Deng, Jianghe Cai (Jinan University); Yifeng Zhu (University of Maine); Yi Zhou (Columbus State University); Shuibing He (Zhejiang University)
Answering the Call to ARMs with PACER: Power-Efficiency in Storage Servers [Video] [PDF]
Hankun Cao, Si Sun, Xijun Li, Jun Gao (Huawei); Shai Bergman, Zhuo Cheng, Ji Zhang (Huawei Zurich); Yanbo Albert Zhou (University of Warwick)
Mitigating Write-ahead Log Contention on Shared Storage Devices [Video] [PDF]
Lalitha Donga (RIT); Kayla Walton (Microsoft); Fangmin Lyu (Facebook); Ben Reed (San Jose State University)

4:00 – 5:00 — Session 5: Cloudy With A Chance of Serverless (Chair: Zhichao Cao)

FastStore: Optimization of Distributed Block Storage Services for Cloud Computing [Video] [PDF]
Xiao Zhang, Huiru Xie, Zhe Wang, Leijie Zeng, Wendi Cheng (NWPU); Shujie Han (Peking University)
FuncStore: Resource Efficient Ephemeral Storage for Serverless Data Sharing [Video] [PDF]
Yijie Liu, Zhuo Huang, Hanxiang Huang, Song Wu, Hai Jin (HUST); Jianhui Yue (Michigan Tech)
Balancing Costs and Durability for Serverless Data [Video] [PDF]
Alex Merenstein, Prajjawal Agarwal, Kapil Thakkar, Katherine Wu, Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University); Xinran Wang, Ali Anwar (University of Minnesota); Vasily Tarasov, Scott Guthridge (IBM Research)

5:00 – 7:00 Poster Session

June 7th — Research Track

8:00 – 8:40 Breakfast & Badge Pickup

8:40 – 10:00 — Session 6: Heterogeneity (Chair: Ahmed Amer)

A Generic and Efficient Framework for Estimating Lossy Compressibility of Scientific Data [Video] [PDF]
Md Hasanur Rahman, Guanpeng Li (University of Iowa); Sheng Di, Franck Cappello (Argonne National Laboratory)
Learning to Coordinate Read-Write Cache Policies in SSD [Video] [PDF]
Yang Zhou, Fang Wang, Zhan Shi, Dan Feng (HUST)
TieredMMS: A Portable Tiered Memory Management System [Video] [PDF]
Song Wei, Minmin Ren, Chao Jia, Gang Wang, Longguang Yue, Xin Zhong, Haifeng Chen (China Unicom)
Minding the Semantic Gap for Effective Storage-Based Ransomware Defense [Video] [PDF]
Weidong Zhu, Grant Hernandez, Sara Rampazzi, Kevin Butler (University of Florida); Washington Garcia (University of Dayton Research Institute); Dave (Jing) Tian (Purdue University)

10:15 – 11:15 — Session 7: Flashy Session (Chair: Mai Zheng)

Adaptive Selection of Parity Chunk Update Methods in RAID-enabled SSDs [Video] [PDF]
Fan Yang, Zhigang Cai, Jun Li, Zhibing Sha, Mingwang Zhao, Jianwei Liao (Southwest University); Balazs Gerofi (RIKEN); Francois Trahay (Telecom SudParis)
AUGEFS: A Scalable Userspace Log-Structured File System for Modern SSDs [Video] [PDF]
Wenqing Jia, Dejun Jiang, Jin Xiong (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Fully Harnessing the Performance Potential of DRAM-less Mobile Flash Storage [Video] [PDF]
Jaesun No (Samsung Electronics); Gyusun Lee (Sungkyunkwan University); Youngsok Kim, Jinkyu Jeong (Yonsei University)

11:30 – 12:30 — Session 8: All Alone with the Memory (Chair: Qirui Yang)

LodgeTree: A Last-Level Distributed and Surrogate Buffer Tree for Non-Volatile Memories [Video] [PDF]
Chunfeng Du, Shengzhe Wang, Suzhen Wu, Jiahong Chen, Yingchao Ji, Bo Mao, Lvqing Yang (Xiamen University); Hong Jiang (UT Arlington)
Dolphin: A Resource-efficient Hybrid Index on Disaggregated Memory [Video] [PDF]
Hang An, Fang Wang, Dan Feng, Zefeng Liu (HUST)
H2KV: A Hotspot Awareness based Hybrid Fault-tolerant In-memory Key-Value Store [Video] [PDF]
Lixiao Cui, Yingjie Geng, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu (Nankai University)

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 — Session 9: Even More Flashy (Chair: Ben Reed)

PhasedRR: Read Reclaim Scheduling without Page-level Access Counting [Video] [PDF]
Li Cai, Jun Li, Zhibing Sha, Zhigang Cai, Jianwei Liao (Southwest University of China)
Ensuring Compaction and Zone Cleaning Efficiency through Same-Zone Compaction in ZNS Key-Value Store [Video] [PDF]
Sungjin Byeon, Joseph Ro, Youngjae Kim (Sogang University); Jun young Han, Jeong-Uk Kang (Samsung Electronics)
PhatKV: Towards an Efficient Metadata Engine for KV-based File Systems on Modern SSD [Video] [PDF]
Yiwen Zhang, Guokuan Li, Kai Lu, Jiguang Wan (HUST); Ting Yao, Huatao Wu, Daohui Wang (Huawei)

2:45 – 3:45 — Panel: Emerging Memory Technologies (Chair: Ming Zhao)

David Emberson (HPE) · Ronen Hyatt (UniFabriX) · Pekon Gupta (Intel) · Adam Manzanares (Samsung) · Vishal Tanna (Micron)

3:45 – 4:00 Research Track Wrap-Up