This is a selected list of international academic conferences in the fields of distributed computing, parallel computing, and concurrent computing.

Selection criteria

The conferences listed here are major conferences of the area; they have been selected using the following criteria:-

1. the notability of the conference has been confirmed by multiple independent sources; for example, it has been mentioned in textbooks or other sources, or it has received a high ranking

2. the conference focuses on distributed and parallel computing (instead of having a much broader scope such as algorithms in general)

3. the conference covers a reasonably large part of the fields of distributed and parallel computing (instead of focusing on a narrow sub-topic).

For the first criterion, references are provided; criteria 2–3 are usually clear from the name of the conference.

Conferences

CCGrid — IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing

• sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ARC SIGARCH

• Organized annually since 2001

DISC — International Symposium on Distributed Computing

• formerly: WDAG — Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs

• organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)

ICDCS — International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

• sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)

• organized in 1979, 1981, 1983, and annually since 1984

ICPADS — International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems

• sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)

• organized in 1992

IPDPS — International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

• organized annually since 1987

• sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)

• proceedings published by IEEE

OPODIS — International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems

• proceedings published in the LIPIcs–Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (until 2014, proceedings were published by Springer in the LNCS series)

• organized annually since 1997

PODC — ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

• sponsored by the ACM special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS

• organized annually since 1982

HPDC — ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

• sponsored by the ACM for design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing

PPoPP — ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

• sponsored by the ACM special interest group SIGPLAN

• organised in 1988 and 1990; biennially in 1991–2005; and annually since 2006

SIROCCO — International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity

• proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series

• organized annually since 1994

SPAA — ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

• formerly: ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures

• sponsored by the ACM special interest groups SIGACT and SIGARCH, organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)

• organized annually since 1989

CONCUR — International Conference on Concurrency Theory

• proceedings published in the LIPIcs–Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics

• organised annually since 1988

See also

• List of computer science conferences contains conferences in other areas of computer science.

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