Call For Papers

MSST 2026 — The 40th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems & Technology

MSST 2026 will be held at Santa Clara University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and offer a full week dedicated to storage technology through both an industrial and a research track. The MSST research track provides a forum for top-quality original storage research, a place where academic researchers and industry practitioners can share findings and challenges in storage technology.

Submissions will be judged on their originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and impact.

Topics

The Research Program Committee encourages the submission of full and short research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Application- and workload-specific storage
• Archival and backup storage
• Auditing and provenance
• Deduplication and compression
• Caching, tiering, and replication
• Data protection and recovery
• Disaggregated and distributed storage
• Storage on the edge
• Energy-efficient storage
• Exascale storage architecture and design
• Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges
• File systems
• Flash/SSD
• Heterogeneous memory/storage systems
• Memory-centric storage systems
• New storage hardware, DPUs, persistent memory
• Next-generation storage (DNA, glass)
• Performance modeling and prediction for storage
• Usability and quality of service for storage
• Security and privacy of storage
• Storage for emerging applications
• Storage reliability, erasure coding
• Storage virtualization
• Storage systems for ML and applying ML to storage systems

AI Policy

MSST encourages responsible use of LLM technology. Any LLM use in preparing the submission must be disclosed. LLMs are permitted for editing or translation, but should not be used to generate significant quantities of text or to generate graphs. Please reach out to the PC Chairs at msst26@easychair.org for any questions.

Submission Instructions

MSST 2026 invites previously unpublished short (4–6 pages, not including references) and full (up to 14 pages, not including references) papers. Short papers must be complete work, not “Work-in-progress.” The review process is double-blind. Submissions are via EasyChair.

For manuscript preparation, we recommend following the standard IEEE conference proceedings format (in US Letter size). Templates for preparing manuscripts in that format can be found here.

Important Dates

• Research Track Submission Deadline: April 4, 2026 April 14, 2026
• Author Notifications: May 1, 2026
• Final Manuscripts Due: May 8, 2026
• Conference: Jun 1–5, 2026 (Research Track: Jun 4 & 5)

General Chair

• Darrell D.E. Long

Research Program Committee Co-Chairs

• Avani Wildani
• Jim Hughes

Research Program Committee

• Keira Adams
• Pranav Bhandari
• Daniel Bittman
• Si Chen
• Yu Hua
• Maria Joseph Israel
• Shiva Jahangiri
• Jay Lofstead
• Dev Purandare
• Thomas Schwarz
• Galen Shipman
• Dimitris Skourtis
• Shuwen Sun
• Swaminathan Sundararaman
• Vasily Tarasov
• Jonathan Tischio
• Theodore Wong

Local Arrangements

• Ahmed Amer

Steering Committee

• Gary Grider
• Darrell D. E. Long
• Ahmed Amer