List of distributed computing conferences

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[1][2][3] or other sources,[4][5] or it has received a high ranking[6]
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[6]
  • sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ARC SIGARCH
  • Organized annually since 2001
• DISC — International Symposium on Distributed Computing[1][2][3][4][5][6]
  • 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[3][4][5][6][7]
  • 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[6][7]
  • 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[3][4][5]
  • 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[1][2][3][6][7]
  • 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[4][6][7]
  • 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[3][4][5]
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • organized annually since 1994
• SPAA — ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures[1][3][4][5][6][7]
  • 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[8]
  • 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.

Notes

1. Nancy Ann Lynch: Distributed Algorithms, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, ISBN 978-1-55860-348-6. Section 1.4, "Bibliographic notes", mentions the following conferences: PODC, FOCS, STOC, SPAA, WDAG.
2. Gerard Tel: Introduction to Distributed Algorithms, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-79483-1. Sect. 1.3.3, "Research field", mentions the following conferences: PODC, WDAG/DISC, STOC, FOCS.
3. Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander A. Shvartsman: Do-All Computing in Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-30918-7. Section "Bibliographic notes" in "Preface" mentions the following conferences: PODC, SPAA, STOC, SODA, FOCS, ICDCS, DISC, OPODIS, SIROCCO.
4. PODC mailing list instructions mention the following conferences (in addition to PODC): DISC, ICDCN, ICDCS, OPODIS, PPoPP, SIROCCO, SPAA, SSS.
5. Roger Wattenhofer: PODC 2007 Statistics Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. The following conferences are listed as other conferences where PODC authors have published most, during the last 5 years: DISC, OPODIS, SPAA, SIROCCO, ICDCS, SRDS, STOC, SODA, FOCS, ESA.
6. The 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences Archived 2009-10-02 at the Wayback Machine. In this ranking, the tiers Archived 2008-07-18 at the Wayback Machine are A+ ("... one of the very best in its field or subfield..."), A ("... would add to the author's respect..."), B ("... some confidence that research was done..."), L ("... local conferences..."), and C (the rest). Conferences on the tier A+ include PODC. Conferences on the tier A include the following: CONCUR, DISC, EuroPar, HiPC, HPDC, ICDCS, ICPP, ICS, IPDPS, MassPar, NDSS, PACT, PADS, P2P, PPoPP, PPSN, SPAA, SRDS, SUPER.
7. In this ranking, the tiers Conferences on Top Tier include PPoPP, and the Second Tier include PODC SPAA ICDCS ICPADS CCC.
8. DBLP provides information on major computer science journals and proceedings. This is their page for CONCUR.