Call for papers

Important dates

• Opening of paper submissions: October 1^st, 2025
• Paper submissions closing (main track): October 26^th, 2025 November 9^th, 2025
• Author notification (main track): December 7^th, 2025 December 21^st 2025
• Camera-ready (all tracks): January 25^th, 2026

Topics

We invite submissions of high-quality, novel, and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing, including but not limited to:

• Algorithms: resource-aware and power-efficient algorithms; real-time and fault-tolerant distributed/parallel algorithms; graph and network algorithms
• Applications: numerical and scientific applications with multi-level parallelism; applications with computations over irregular domains; models and methods to enhance functional/non-functional application characteristics
• Data-centric Processing: scientific workflows; large-scale data processing; large-scale data management; scalable and next-generation storage systems; I/O performance tuning, benchmarking, and middleware; FAIR/open data systems
• Distributed AI: Federated Learning; Distributed Learning; AI at scale; training of LLMs; benchmarking for AI workloads
• Distributed Computing: cluster, grid, fog/edge, mobile and cloud systems; Service-oriented processing; stochastic and approximate computing; cost, security, energy, and other non-functional requirements models and frameworks
• Parallel Computing: accelerator-based systems inc. GPU, FPGA, neuromorphic and post-CMOS devices; embedded parallel systems; dependability, survivability, and fault-tolerance; methodologies, benchmarking/metrics, performance analysis and tools
• Programming Models and Tools: programming languages, compilers, middleware and OS; libraries, runtime, and systems software; notations; performance prediction and analysis; simulation and modelling of parallel/distributed systems
• HPC state of practice: Managing systems and storage; managing facilities; HPC project management; moving, managing and sharing data HPC in the cloud; networking and cybersecurity; HPC training and education strategies; application workflows; system benchmarking
• Systems and Architectures: high data throughput and streaming architectures; memory organisation; service-oriented architectures; heterogeneous and hybrid systems; resource management; post-CMOS architectures inc. quantum, neuromorphic, and others

The conference will feature contributed and invited talks. Co-located Special Sessions are also planned as usual for PDP.

Research paper submission guidelines

Submissions must be in PDF format and should not exceed eight pages for long papers and four pages for short contributions. All submissions must follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings Format (double-column, 10pt size fonts) available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submission should be done via EasyChair – https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=pdp2026.

The review process is double-blind and all papers need to be “best-effort” anonymized. We strongly encourage making code and data available anonymously (e.g., in an anonymous GitHub repository via Anonymous GitHub or in a Dropbox folder).

At least one author of each accepted paper must register with a regular registration and present the paper at the conference.

Co-located Special Sessions are also planned as usual for PDP.

Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of the conference will be published through the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for indexing in Scopus and other indexing services.

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