APPT 2026 primarily focuses on next-generation computing paradigms, new hardware and software platforms for computer systems, and the impact of future intelligent technologies on computer architecture. We invite original contributions spanning theoretical breakthroughs, system-level optimizations, and real-world applications.
We invite original paper submissions related to (but not limited to) the following topics:
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- Parallel Architectures and Hardware Systems
– General-purpose and domain-specific parallel architectures and accelerators
– Memory systems for parallel and distributed systems
– Networks and interconnects
– Parallel I/O and storage systems
– Power-efficient architectures
– Warehouse-scale computer architectures and systems
– Parallel and distributed embedded systems
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- Software Foundations for Parallel Computing
– Parallel programming languages, programming models and compilers
– Domain-specific languages for parallel and distributed systems
– Programming environments and tools
– Runtime systems
– Operating systems and system virtualization
– Resource management
– High availability, reliability and fault tolerance
– Scalability in parallel systems and software
– Performance modeling, analysis and tuning tools
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- Distributed and Cloud computing
– Reliability, availability and security in distributed and cloud systems
– Distributed and cloud storage systems
– Distributed caching, and query processing
– Workload characterization of cloud systems
– Managing, debugging, and diagnosing of cloud systems
– Peer-to-peer computing
– Grid computing
– Pervasive and mobile computing architectures
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- Parallel Algorithms and Applications
– Design and analysis of novel numerical and combinatorial parallel algorithms
– Protocols for resource management
– Communication and synchronization on parallel and distributed systems
– Parallel algorithms handling power, mobility, and resilience
– Massively parallel applications
– Fault-tolerance of algorithms
– Network algorithms, scheduling and load balancing
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- System Support for Emerging Applications
– Natural language processing
– Speech synthesis and recognition
– Computer vision
– Secure architecture
– Trusted computing, Block Chain
– Quantum computing
– AI infra and AI for architecture
Important Dates:
- Paper Submission (Abstracts)March 27, 2026
- Paper Submission (Full Paper)April 3, 2026
- Paper NotificationMay 3, 2026