Important dates
- Special Session proposals:
August 31st, 2025September 15th, 2025 - Paper submissions (main track):
October 26th, 2025November 9th, 2025 - Author notification (main track:
December 7th, 2025December 21st 2025 - Camera-ready (all tracks): January 25th, 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.
Special Session Proposal Submission Guidelines
Special Sessions proposals should include the following information:
- A brief description of the specific issues that the special session will address;
- Contact information of the Special Session chairs, and their competence in the proposed topic(s);
- A tentative list of Program Committee members;
- A draft of the Session-specific Call for Papers including tentative calendar;
- An estimate of the number of expected submissions. For returning Special Sessions, please indicate the number of submissions received in the previous iteration of the session;
- How the Session is planned to be advertised to receive the expected number of submissions.
Proposals should be sent until 15th September to pdp2026@cs.ubbcluj.ro with subject [Special session proposal].