MSST 2026
June 1–5, 2026 — a full week of massive storage systems & technology
MSST 2027 will be held during the week of May 17th–21st, 2027.
pNFS-lattice, the world’s first top-to-bottom open-source pNFS solution with a user-space Linux metadata server, was announced at MSST 2026 (and the first BoF will be offered at the 2026 SNIA SDC, as well as a talk by Brian Atkinson from LANL and John Harechmak from PEAK:AIO).
MSST 2026 will be was held at Santa Clara University, and offered a full week (June 1–5) dedicated to storage technology through both its invited (June 1–3) and research (June 4–5) tracks.
The MSST invited track, with its focus on practitioners, offered three days of invited speakers, while the MSST research track ended the conference with a forum for top-quality peer-reviewed storage research. With its return to its full format, MSST continued to provide a place where academic researchers and industry practitioners could share findings and challenges in storage technology.
The first three days (June 1st–3rd) were the industry/invited track, featuring invited talks by practitioners speaking on a range of topics including Open Flash platform directions, shared/computational/tiered memory solutions and contexts, and included a celebration for the 70th birthday of RAMAC (which we marked this year). The call for papers for the research track (June 4–5) can be found here, and the research program is now available.
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 2026 is made possible thanks to sponsorship and support from SCU’s School of Engineering, and Hammerspace.
