39th Conference · NFS 40th Anniversary

MSST 2025

September 22–24, 2025 — Santa Clara University

2025 Conference

The 39th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology & NFS 40th Anniversary Celebration, held at Santa Clara University, September 22–24, 2025.

MSST 2024 concluded its 50th anniversary meeting on June 7th 2024, and returned for a special set of talks and tutorials on Monday September 22nd through Wednesday 24th, 2025, before returning in 2026 to its regular full-week schedule and format. Below is the agenda and select presentations for 2025 (the full 2024 program can be found here).

MSST 2025 Agenda

September 22nd — Tutorials (RAG & Scale-up NFS)

9:00 – 9:50 Breakfast & Badging Pickup

9:50 – 10:00 Introduction

10:00 – 10:50 Samsung — Luis Chamberlain, Kdevops

10:50 – 11:20 Break

11:20 – 12:00 Samsung — Luis Chamberlain, Kdevops NFS & VectorDB

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Xinnor — Sergey Platonov, NFS scale up

2:00 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:00 LANL — Gary Grider, Need to know RAG setup

3:00 – 4:00 DDN — RAG/KVCache

September 23rd — Invited Track (Day 1 of 2)

9:00 – 9:50 Breakfast & Badging Pickup

9:50 – 10:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks

10:00 – 12:00 — Session 1a: pNFS (part 1)

10:00 – 10:30 Hammerspace — Trond Myklebust, pNFS new features & progress

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 Pure Storage — Jon Curley, pNFS & FlashBlade/EXA

11:30 – 12:00 Micron — John Groves, Orchestrated CXL Memory Objects with FAMFS & pNFS

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Keynote: Happy 40th Birthday NFS — Tom Lyon & Brian Pawlowski

2:00 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:00 — Session 1b: pNFS (part 2)

2:30 – 3:00 PeakAIO — Mark Klarzynski, Open Source pNFS

3:00 – 3:30 Break

3:30 – 5:00 — Session 2: Large Capacity Devices

3:30 – 4:00 Seagate — Ryan Mendosa, History of HAMR and the Path to 10TB/Disk & Beyond

4:00 – 4:30 Leil — David Gerstein & Piotr Modrzyk, HDD Native Parallel Filesystem

4:30 – 5:00 Spectra Logic — Matt Ninesling, Removable Media Trends

5:00 – 5:10 Invited Track Day 1 Wrap-up

5:10 – 6:00 — NFS 40th Anniversary Party

September 24th — Invited Track (Day 2 of 2)

9:00 – 9:50 Breakfast & Badging Pickup

9:50 – 10:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks

10:00 – 12:00 — Session 1: Object Storage

10:00 – 10:30 VersityGW — Ben McClelland, Real-World Challenges of S3 Compatibility

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 MinIO — Murat Karslioglu, Object Storage is the Backbone of AI

11:30 – 12:00 DDN — Moiz Kohari, Why object storage is beneficial for AI systems

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Keynote: Meta — Ross Stenfort, QLC in the Real World

2:00 – 4:00 — Session 2: AI I/O Workloads Profiling

2:00 – 2:30 Samsung — Devasena, Enabling “Storage for AI” Benchmarking through MLPerf Storage

2:30 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 3:30 Zilliz — Jiang Chen, VDBench 1.0: Real-World Benchmarking for Vector Databases Usage

3:30 – 4:00 JRLabs — Grant Mackey, CMSBench

4:00 – 4:50 Lightning Talks: Xinnor, Solidigm, Backblaze (Pat Patterson), …

4:50 – 5:00 Invited Track Day 2 Wrap-Up

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 2025, and MSST 2024, were made possible thanks to sponsorship and support from SCU’s School of Engineering, and Hammerspace.