MSST 2026
1
June 2026
Day 1 – Invited Track
09:00 – 09:50am Breakfast & Badging Pickup
09:50 – 10:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00pm Session 1: Access Control in the AI Era
10:00 – 10:50am “LANL: Access Controlled AI Context” – Jason Lee & Gary Grider
10:50 – 11:10am Break
11:10 – 12:00pm “Hammerspace: Data Cataloging and Classification in a Distributed Global Namespace” – Michael Kade
12:00 – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00 – 02:15pm Session 2: Archive (Part 1)
01:00 – 01:25pm “Leil: Scaling 30TB+ SMR” SAS4 Performance Gains and HAMR-SMR vs. ePMR-SMR” – David Gerstein
01:25 – 01:50pm “Spectra: How to Store an Exabyte” – Matt Starr
01:50 – 02:15pm “Versity: Exascale Is the First Floor: Building Storage Architecture for What Comes Next” – Meghan McClelland
02:15 – 02:35pm Break
02:35 – 05:00pm Session 3: Archive (Part 2)
02:35 – 03:00pm “Cerabyte: Long-term Data Storage for Big Science” – Steffen Hellmold
03:00 – 03:25pm “Seagate: HAMR/SMR” – David Rice
03:25 – 03:45pm Break
03:45 – 04:10pm “IBM: The Future of Tape Storage” – Simeon Furrer
04:10 – 04:35pm “Bacula Systems: Beyond 3-2-1-0: The Backup as Computable Substrate” – Rick Stevens
04:35 – 05:00pm “West Oxford Advisors: RAMAC at 70, Kryder’s Roadmap at 7: A Vertical Market Failure” – Matt Klusas
05:00 – 05:10pm Day 1 Wrap-up
2
June 2026
Day 2 – Invited Track
09:00 – 10:00am Breakfast & Badging Pickup
10:00 – 10:10am Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:10 – 12:00pm Session 1: Session 1: Graph/corporate memory/XL & long-lasting context
10:10 – 10:35am “VaultIQ: Storage-Native AI Memory for Exascale Systems” – Krishna Maheshwari
10:35 – 11:00am “Weka: “Persistent Agent Swarms – Use-cases & Inference Implications”” – Valentin Bercovici
10:50 – 11:10am Break
11:35 – 12:00pm “SK Hynix: Inference Context Memory Storage for LLM serving using CXL Hybrid Memory (SSD backed)” – Hakbeom Jang
12:00 – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00 – 01:50pm Keynote “Next Generation Smart Storage” David Flynn, Hammerspace
01:50 – 02:10pm Break
02:10 – 04:45pm Session 2: Open Flash Platform (OFP)
02:10 – 02:35pm “Meta: Storage Disaggregation: Infrastructure Fungibility & Efficiency at Hyperscale” – Madhavan Ravi
02:35 – 03:00pm “Xsight Labs: DPU managed Smart Storage” – Ted Weatherford
03:00 – 03:30pm Break
03:30 – 03:55pm “Samsung: DPU managed Context Memory” – Dongjoo Seo
03:55 – 04:20pm “Scaleflux: Solutions to scale the AI data pipeline” – Pic Balaji
04:20 – 04:45pm “Solidigm: Reimagining Storage Architecture, Confronting Bottlenecks to Scaling” – Jonathan Hinkle & Alan
Bumgarner
04:45 – 05:00pm Day 2 Wrap-up
3
June 2026
Day 3 – Invited Track
09:00 – 09:50am Breakfast & Badging Pickup
09:50 – 10:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:00 – 12:00pm Session 1: Shared, Computational, Tiered Memory (Part 1)
10:50 – 10:25am “Unifabfix: CXL and Beyond – Building the Scale-Up Memory Fabric for AI” – Ronen Hyatt
10:25 – 10:50am “Micron: Fabric Attached Memory File System Update” – John Groves
10:50 – 11:10am Break
11:10 – 11:35pm “SK Hynix: Disaggregated LLM Serving with Disaggregated Shared Memory KV Cache at Rack-Scale” – Jongryool Kim
11:35 – 12:00pm “Marvell: Photonic Fabric Memory Appliance” – Ravi Mahatme
12:00 – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00 – 01:20pm “PeakAIO, LANL: pNFS Lattice: An Open Source Scale-out Metadata Server” – John Harechmak, Gary Grider/Brian Atkinson
01:20 – 03:25pm Session 2: Shared, Computational, Tiered Memory (Part 2)
01:20 – 01:40pm “NMC: Distributed threads for multi-node shared memory” – John Bent
01:40 – 02:05pm “Mext: Smart Memory Tiering” – Gary Smerdon
02:05 – 02:35pm Break
02:35 – 03:00pm “Elephance: MemOS/Memory for Data Intensive Applications” – Daniel Bittman
03:50 – 03:25pm “SK hynix: LLM Training using Computational CSL Hybrid Memory (SSD backed)” – Younghoon Min
03:25 – 03:35pm Day 3 Wrap-up
03:35 – 05:00pm RAMAC Birthday Celebration
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June 2026