IPDPS 2026: Call for Papers

The 40th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
May 25-29, 2026
New Orleans, USA

IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists to present novel and impactful research in high-performance computing (HPC) in parallel and distributed processing.

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission: October 2, 2025
• Paper Submission: October 9, 2025 (firm deadline)
• Author response/rebuttal to reviews: December 1 – 4, 2025
• First round decisions: December 18, 2025
• Revised submissions due: January 19, 2026
• Final decisions: February 2, 2026
• Camera-ready versions due: February 20, 2026

All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH.

Submission Guidelines

• Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract by October 2, 2025.
• Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by October 9, 2025.
• Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11-inch pages (IEEE conference style), including all figures and tables.
• There is no page limit for references, which must be complete and include all author names for each reference cited.
• No supplementary sections or appendices are allowed beyond the stated page limit.
• The program committee will use a double-anonymous review process. Submitted manuscripts should not include author names and affiliations, or otherwise disclose the identity of the authors.
• Files must be submitted by following the instructions at the IPDPS 2026 Submission Site (powered by Linklings).
• Authors must select a “primary” track for the submission; the primary track is the area most related to the paper’s contributions. An optional “secondary” track may also be selected.
• IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Algorithms: Algorithms for computational and data science in parallel and distributed computing environments.
• Applications: Real-world applications (combinatorial, scientific, engineering, data analysis, and visualization) that use parallel and distributed computing concepts.
• Architecture: Existing and emerging architectures for high-performance computing.
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI): All areas of ML/AI that are relevant to parallel and distributed computing.
• Measurements, Modeling, and Experiments: Experiments and performance-oriented studies in the practice of parallel and distributed computing.
• Programming Models, Compilers, and Runtime Systems: Design of parallel programming models and paradigms to languages and compilers supporting these models and paradigms to runtime and middleware solutions.
• System Software: Software that is close to the bare high-performance computing (HPC) hardware.

Awards

• Best Paper Award: The program committee will select a small set of papers as Best Paper finalists. One paper will be named the Best Paper.
• Best Open-Source Contribution Award: IPDPS welcomes submissions with technical contributions of open-source tools and dataset artifacts relevant to the parallel and distributed computing community.

The two award categories are not exclusive; a paper can be nominated for both the Best Paper award and Best Open-Source Contribution award.

Review of Manuscripts

All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee under a double-anonymous, two-round review process. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, demonstrated or potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference.

ArXiv Submission Policy

Having an arXiv paper does not prohibit authors from submitting a paper to IPDPS 2026. Authors must follow the double-anonymous submission guidelines even if a submitted paper is already on arXiv.

Guidance on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text

IEEE requires that the use of any AI-generated text be disclosed in the paper’s Acknowledgements section.

Contact

Questions may be sent to pc2026@ipdps.org.