MSST 2019 Research Call for Papers

May 4 — 8, 2020

Tutorials May 4

Invited speaker track May 5-6

Research track May 7-8

Sponsored by Santa Clara University, School of Engineering

Research track Information

MSST 2020 will be held May 4-8, 2020 at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. The Research

Track will be May 7 and 8.

The Research Program Committee requests the submission of research papers on the implementation,

design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest include, but

are not limited to:

• Exascale storage architecture and design

• Parallel and distributed file systems

• Designs of integrating parallel programming and distributed storage systems

• Storage security and privacy

• Storage provenance

• Scalable metadata management

• Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems

• Cloud storage systems and global-scale storage

• Performance modeling and analysis of storage systems

• Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges

• Data protection and recovery

• Long term archiving, data preservation and management

• Data compression and deduplication

• Storage for virtualized environments

• File systems

• Tiered storage

• Storage virtualization

• Networked storage architectures

• New storage APIs: object storage, key-value stores, and others

• I/O stacks for low-latency storage devices

• Alternative Flash Translation Layers

• Storage class memory devices and systems

• New memory technologies

As is traditional, MSST will solicit short (4–6 pages) and full (8–14 pages) papers. References

are not included in page counts. Paper formats should adhere to the IEEE conference templates

available at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=msst2020

Dates: Research Track Submission

Deadline: Feb 15, 2020

Notifications: March 15, 2020

Program Chairs:

• Darrell Long, UCSC

• Michal Simon, CERN