# 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:-
* 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
* the conference focuses on distributed and parallel computing (instead of having a much broader scope such as algorithms in general)
* 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