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The International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology

MSST 2026 — Schedule

The invited track runs June 1–3. The research track runs June 4–5 (see the Research Program).

1 June 2026 — Day 1, Invited Track
09:00 – 09:50 Breakfast & Badging Pickup
09:50 – 10:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00 — Session 1: Access Control in the AI Era
10:00 – 10:50 “LANL: Access Controlled AI Context” — Jason Lee & Gary Grider
10:50 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 12:00 “Hammerspace: World of Distributed Data” — Michael Kade
12:00 – 01:00 Lunch
01:00 – 02:15 — Session 2: Archive (Part 1)
01:00 – 01:25 “Leil: Deep Distributed File System” — David Gerstein
01:25 – 01:50 “Spectra: View from Robotics/Automation” — Matt Ninesling
01:50 – 02:15 “Versity: Tiering Software” — Meghan McClelland
02:15 – 02:35 Break
02:35 – 05:00 — Session 3: Archive (Part 2)
02:35 – 03:00 “Cerabyte: Ceramic Storage” — Steffen Hellmold
03:00 – 03:25 “Seagate: HAMR/SMR” — Riyan Mendonsa
03:25 – 03:45 Break
03:45 – 04:10 “IBM: Media Roadmaps” — Simeon Furrer
04:10 – 04:35 “Bacula Systems” — Rick Stevens
04:35 – 05:00 “West Oxford Advisors” — Matt Klusas
05:00 – 05:10 Day 1 Wrap-up
2 June 2026 — Day 2, Invited Track
09:00 – 10:00 Breakfast & Badging Pickup
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:10 – 12:00 — Session 1: Graph / corporate memory / XL & long-lasting context
10:10 – 10:35 “vaultIQ: Context Memory” — Krishna Maheshwari
10:35 – 11:00 “Weka: Neural Mesh Augmented Memory Grid” — Valentin Bercovici
10:50 – 11:10 Break
11:35 – 12:00 “SK Hynix: Inference Context Memory Storage for LLM serving using CXL Hybrid Memory (SSD backed)” — Hakbeom Jang (slides not available)
12:00 – 01:00 Lunch
01:00 – 01:50 — Keynote: “Next generation smart Storage — OFP & Slip Stream” — David Flynn, Hammerspace (slides not available)
01:50 – 02:10 Break
02:10 – 04:45 — Session 2: Open Flash Platform (OFP)
02:10 – 02:35 “Meta: Use cases for next generation smart storage” — Madhavan Ravi
02:35 – 03:00 “Xsight Labs: DPU managed Smart Storage” — Ted Weatherford
03:00 – 03:30 Break
03:30 – 03:55 “Samsung: DPU managed Smart Storage” — Dongjoo Seo (slides not available)
03:55 – 04:20 “Scaleflux” — Pic Balaji (slides not available)
04:20 – 04:45 Solidigm — Jonathan Hinkle & Alan Bumgarner (slides not available)
04:45 – 05:00 Day 2 Wrap-up
3 June 2026 — Day 3, Invited Track
09:00 – 09:50 Breakfast & Badging Pickup
09:50 – 10:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00 — Session 1: Shared, Computational, Tiered Memory (Part 1)
10:00 – 10:25 “Unifabrix: CXL/UAL Memory Systems” — Ronen Hyatt
10:25 – 10:50 “Micron: Fabric Attached Memory File System Update” — John Groves
10:50 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 11:35 “SK Hynix: Disaggregated Memory Pooling” — Jongryool Kim (slides not available)
11:35 – 12:00 “Marvell: Scalable Fabric attached Memory” — Ravi Mahatme (slides not available)
12:00 – 01:00 Lunch
01:00 – 01:20 “PeakAIO, LANL: pNFS open-source project update” — John Harechmak, Gary Grider / Brian Atkinson
01:20 – 03:15 — Session 2: Shared, Computational, Tiered Memory (Part 2)
01:20 – 01:30 “CMU/LANL: Distributed threads for multi-node shared memory” — Chuck Cranor / Gary Grider
01:30 – 01:55 “Mext: Smart Memory Tiering” — Gary Smerdon
01:55 – 02:25 Break
02:25 – 02:50 “Elephance: MemOS/Smarter Memory Use” — Daniel Bittman
02:50 – 03:15 “SK hynix: LLM Training using Computational CXL Hybrid Memory (SSD backed)” — Younghoon Min (slides not available)
03:15 – 03:30 Day 3 Wrap-up
03:30 – 05:00 — RAMAC Birthday Celebration
4–5 June 2026 — Research Track
See the Research Program for the list of accepted papers.