30th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies
MSST 2014

Santa Clara, California, USA

June 2 - 6, 2014
Storage Research Track June 5-6, 2014



Sponsored by Santa Clara University
Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society


Conference Chair: Dr. Sam Coleman
Tutorial Chair: Sean Roberts
Program Chair: Dr. Matthew O’Keefe
Research Track General Chair: Dr. Ethan Miller
Research Track Program Committee Chairs: Dr. Zvonimir Bandic, Dr. Thomas Schwarz, SJ
SCU Arrangements:                    Dr. Ahmed Amer
Vendor Chair:                              Ben Kobler


First Call for Papers

Abstracts Deadline March 17, 2014
Paper Submission: March 22, 2014
Notifications: April 7, 2014
Final papers due: May 2, 2014
Research Track: June 5 - 6, 2014
Papers published in: IEEE Xplore


The 30th International Conference on Massive Storage systems and Technologies (MSST 2014) will have IEEE as a technical co-sponsor and will be held at Santa Clara University in the midst of Silicon Valley. The conference offers a full week dedicated to storage technology. As on previous occasions, the conference will include a two-day research track of peer-reviewed papers on the design, analysis, and implementation of and experience with storage systems. Published papers will be indexed by IEEE and appear in IEEE Xplore.

We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest for the MSST 2014 Research Track include (but are not limited to):
Performance modeling and analysis of storage systems
Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges
Management of new and upcoming storage technologies
Cloud storage systems and global-scale storage
Exascale storage architecture and design
Evaluation of networked storage architectures
Data protection and recovery
Data archiving
Storage in virtualized environments
Storage systems modeling and evaluation
Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems
Parallel and distributed file systems
Scalable metadata management
Storage security, privacy, and provenance
Long-term data preservation and management
Disk and Flash based cold storage systems
File systems for cold storage
File systems for shingled magnetic recording hard disk drives
File systems for solid state disk drives
New solid state disk APIs: Object storage, key value store, memory mapping and other
Phase change memory based storage class memory devices and systems

As is traditional, MSST will have short and full papers. Short papers are to be 4 - 6 pages in length, whereas full papers are 8 - 14 pages in length. Accepted full papers will be presented in a 30 minute session, short papers will be presented in a poster session with short (7 minutes) presentations. All papers will be published by IEEE Xplore and indexed by IEEE.

Details about the program committee, the submission process and rules, and the conference organization, will be published at the conference website: http://storageconference.org.