[hpc-announce] CFP: 38th IEEE/SBC Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2026)

Mon Mar 9 08:56:51 CDT 2026

########.   SBAC-PAD 2026 - Call for Papers ###############

The 38th IEEE/SBC Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance
Computing will take place from October 14 to 16 in Madrid, Spain.

SBAC-PAD is an annual international conference series that presents the
latest trends, current research and developments, and novel tools and
applications in the fields of Computer Architecture, High-Performance
Computing, and Parallel and Distributed Computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is
open to industry, faculty, researchers, practitioners, and undergraduate
and graduate students from around the world. Its scientific program is
composed of high-quality submitted papers, selected by a thorough peer
review process, and invited talks from renowned researchers.

## Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline: May 15th, 2026 (AoE)
Paper submission deadline: May 22nd, 2026 (AoE)
Rebuttal period: July 22nd - 27th, 2026
Author notification: August 3rd, 2026
Camera-ready submission: September 5th, 2026

## Tracks:

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts to one of six tracks
that address challenges in any of the following areas related to the fields
of Computer Architecture (CA) and High-performance and Distributed
Computing (HPDC).

Track 1 - System Software: Focuses on the design, implementation, and
optimization of operating systems, compilers, runtimes, and middleware for
high-performance, parallel, and distributed computing environments. Topics
include virtualization, scheduling, resource management, and programming
support for emerging architectures.

Track 2 - Computer Architecture: Covers advances in processor, memory,
interconnect, and accelerator design, including GPUs, FPGAs, and near-data
processing. This track also welcomes contributions on reconfigurable,
energy-efficient, resilient, and secure architectures for modern computing
systems.

Track 3 - Distributed Systems, Networking and Storage: Explores scalable
distributed infrastructures such as clouds, clusters, and edge/fog systems.
It also includes work on networking technologies, data management, storage
systems, and I/O frameworks for data-intensive and high-throughput
workloads.

Track 4 - Parallel Applications and Algorithms: Dedicated to the
development and analysis of parallel and distributed algorithms,
programming models, and real-world scientific and engineering applications.
Submissions addressing performance, scalability, and resilience on modern
architectures are particularly encouraged.

Track 5 - Performance Evaluation: Focuses on benchmarking, modeling,
simulation, and analytical methods for evaluating and predicting the
performance of hardware and software systems. Topics include power-aware
and predictive performance models, as well as tools for profiling and
optimization.

Track 6 - Parallel and Distributed Computing for AI and Data Analytics:
Encompasses AI and machine learning methods applied to computer
architecture and high-performance computing, as well as the use of HPC for
AI workloads. It also includes tools, frameworks, and data-driven
approaches that enhance productivity and insight in large-scale computing
environments.

The program committee will select the top-ranked papers as finalists, and
one paper will be selected during the conference as the Best Paper.

Selected papers will be invited to a special issue in a high-impact journal.

## Paper guidelines:

Paper submissions must be in English, have 10 pages maximum (excluding the
references), and follow the IEEE conference manuscript formatting
guidelines for double-column text using a single-spaced 10-point font on
8.5 × 11-inch pages. Templates are available from
https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!Zo0pPuyXzOxR2FYk12jAxHMRAmc-E5NPa7B9ALJ8_lUES-Kwm07wwVqN8BC3CHJDOAUXMsGfGaAN1BHpVseoFSGvIg$ . Papers that do
not meet these requirements might be rejected without a review. To be
published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication
at the IEEE Xplore, one of the authors must register at the full rate and
present his/her work at the conference.

The SBAC-PAD 2026 submissions will undergo a double-anonymized review
process, where reviewers will not know the authors’ identities, and
vice-versa. Therefore, authors should “anonymize” their submission by
adopting the following guidelines, otherwise papers will be rejected
without review:

Authors cannot include their names, affiliations, funding sources, or
acknowledgments in any part of the for-review version of their paper;

Self-references that are relevant to the work are allowed, but they should
not appear in the text in the first person. Instead, they should be
referenced in the third person, like “Smith et al. found that… [4].”, and;

For the authors’ own unpublished work use anonymous citations.

## Paper submission:

Submission must be done using EasyChair:
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