Call for papers

CCGrid 2026 is seeking original, high-quality papers that address fundamental research and emerging challenges across a broad spectrum of distributed systems and applications. Submissions may focus on theoretical foundations, system design, implementation, or real-world deployments.

Papers that stem from industry efforts and academia-industry collaborations are particularly encouraged, including practical experiences, deployed systems, and applied research with tangible impact.

Topics of interest

Track 1: Hardware Systems, Architectures, and Future Compute Platforms

Innovations in computing and networking hardware, system architectures, and emerging compute paradigms. Topics include:

• accelerators
• heterogeneous systems
• reconfigurable architectures
• quantum or neuromorphic computing platforms across cloud, edge, and HPC environments
• advanced networking technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and high-performance interconnects for distributed systems.

Track 2: Software Systems, Applications, and Programming Models

Advances in middleware, operating systems, programming frameworks, cloud-native systems, and distributed application development. Topics include:

• serverless computing
• microservices
• container orchestration
• resource management and scheduling
• contributions on data-intensive systems, distributed storage architectures, and scalable data management frameworks.

Track 3: Sustainable Computing and Green Technologies

Energy-efficient computing, carbon-aware platforms, carbon-intelligent scheduling, and sustainable systems design across the cloud-to-edge continuum. Topics include:

• cost-aware computing
• economic modeling
• optimisation of resource usage to support sustainability goals.

Track 4: Performance Modelling, Analysis, and Optimisation

Techniques for performance engineering, benchmarking, system tuning, and modelling of distributed, parallel, and cloud-based systems. Topics include:

• optimisation of scientific workflows
• reproducibility-aware benchmarking methodologies
• pipeline performance engineering.

Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Reliability

Innovative solutions for securing distributed infrastructures, enabling confidential computing, preserving data privacy, and enhancing cyber-resilience. Topics include:

• trustworthy systems
• intrusion detection
• self-healing mechanisms
• approaches for building robust, fault-tolerant, and reliable computing platforms.

Track 6: Systems for AI/ML and Distributed Intelligence

Techniques and systems for scalable and efficient execution of AI/ML workloads across distributed platforms, addressing challenges in foundation models, model serving and MLOps. This includes the compute continuum, osmotic computing, and liquid computing. Topics include:

• edge intelligence
• collaborative and federated learning
• system-level support for distributed AI.

Submission guidelines

• Follow the instructions for manuscript papers, including structure, page count and size, and format.
• Use the IEEE conference template via EasyChair.
• Submissions need to be double-blind, keeping authors and reviewers anonymous.
• Read and understand IEEE Submission and Peer Review Policies, especially timely topics like Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text.
• Accepted papers will be submitted for possible inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements.

Review

• All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees.
• Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal.

Important dates

• Abstract and paper deadline: 21 December 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 10 February 2026
• Camera-ready paper submission: 15 March 2026
• Conference: 18 to 21 May