The International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (or IPDPS) is an annual conference for engineers and scientists to present recent findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. In addition to technical sessions of submitted paper presentations, the meeting offers workshops, tutorials, and commercial presentations & exhibits. IPDPS is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing.

IPDPS is a week-long symposium that typically includes three days of a main track, two days of about 20 workshops bookending the main track, one or more tutorials, a panel, several keynote talks, and a banquet. The main track consists of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers representing original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. IPDPS topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on issues such as: stability, scalability, and fault tolerance of distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, and scheduling and load balancing. Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing. Parallel and distributed architectures, including shared memory, distributed memory (including petascale system designs, and architectures with instruction-level and thread-level parallelism), special-purpose models (including signal and image processors, network processors, other special purpose processors), nontraditional processor technologies, network and interconnect architecture, parallel I/O and storage systems, system design issues for low power, design for high reliability, and performance modeling and evaluation. Parallel and distributed software, including parallel programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating systems, resource management, middleware, libraries, data mining, and programming environments and tools.

Conference history

The conference began in 1987 as the Orange County Parallel Processing Conference, before being renamed as the International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS). In 1998, the Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Systems (SPDP) merged with IPPS; and in 2000, the conference took the now familiar name: International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). Five of the original volunteer organizers have served the conference for over two decades: Viktor Prasanna, George Westrom, Sally Jelinek Westrom, Susamma Barua, and Bill Pitts.

1987 - Fullerton, California, USA 1988 - Fullerton, California, USA 1989 - Fullerton, California, USA 1990 - Fullerton, California, USA 1991 - Anaheim, California, USA 1992 - Beverly Hills, California, USA 1993 - Newport Beach, California, USA 1994 - Cancún, Mexico 1995 - Santa Barbara, California, USA 1996 - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 1997 - Geneva, Switzerland 1998 - Orlando, Florida, USA 1999 - San Juan, Puerto Rico 2000 - Cancún, Mexico 2001 - San Francisco, California, USA 2002 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA 2003 - Nice, France 2004 - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 2005 - Denver, Colorado, USA 2006 - Rhodes Island, Greece 2007 - Long Beach, California, USA 2008 - Miami, Florida, USA 2009 - Rome, Italy 2010 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2011 - Anchorage, Alaska, USA 2012 - Shanghai, China 2013 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2014 - Phoenix, Arizona, USA 2015 - Hyderabad, India 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, USA 2017 - Orlando, Florida, USA 2018 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2019 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2020 - New Orleans, USA [virtual] 2021 - Portland, USA [virtual] 2022 - Lyon, France 2023 - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA 2024 - San Francisco, California, USA 2025 - Milan, Italy 2026 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award In 1989, the conference established the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field. The recipient of the award is invited to give a keynote talk each year at the conference.

See also List of distributed computing conferences

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