MSST 2024 concluded its 50th anniversary meeting on June 7th 2024, and will be returning 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. Please find below the tentative agenda for 2025, and early registration is now open at this link.

Tentative 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 RAG Tutorial – Luis Chamberlain
10:50 – 11:20 Break
11:20 – 12:00 Samsung Kdevops – Luis Chamberlain
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 DDN RAG Tutorial
2:00 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:30 Xinnor – Sergey Platonov, NFS scale up
3:35 – 4:30 LANL – Need to know RAG setup

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 Dell
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Keynote: Happy 40th Birthday NFS, Tom Lyon & Brian Pawlowski
2:00 – 3:00 Session 1b: pNFS (part 2)
2:00 – 2:30 Micron – John Groves, Orchestrated CXL memory objects with FAMFS & PNFS
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 Gerstien & Piotr Modrzyk, HDD Native Parallel Filesystem: Maximizing Throughput for Highest Capacity CMR & HM-SMR Drives
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 – Rakshith Venkatash and Dil Radhakrishnan, Why Object Storage is so relevant to AI
11:30 – 12:00 DDN – Moiz Kohari
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Keynote: Meta
2:00 – 4:00 Session 2: AI I/O Workloads Profiling
2:00 – 2:30 Samsung – Devasena, Enabling “Storage forAI” Benchmarking through MLPerf Storage
2:30 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 3:30 Zilliz  – Jiang Chen (Head, Dev. Relations), VDBench 1.0: Real-World Benchmarking for Vector Databases Usage
3:30 – 4:00 JRLabs – Grant Mackey, CXL Benchmark
4:00 – 4:50 Lightning Talks: Xinnor, Solidigm, LANL (GUFI/RAG/MCP update), … 
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 2024 was possible thanks to sponsorship and support from SCU’s School of Engineering, and Hammerspace.