40th IEEE International Parallel &
Distributed Processing Symposium
May 25-29, 2026
Marriott on Canal Street
New Orleans, USA

Report on IPDPS 2026

The following report on the 40th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium is taken in part from the general co-chairs’ message in the proceedings, starting with their pleasure to finally welcome the IPDPS community to the city that was meant to host the conference in 2020.

“This return to New Orleans carries special meaning. In 2020, after plans for the conference were nearly complete, the rapid onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced an abrupt transition to a fully virtual format. That moment required resilience, flexibility, and an extraordinary effort from the IPDPS community to ensure that important scholarship could still be shared. While that virtual conference served its purpose well, it was never the New Orleans experience we had envisioned. We are therefore especially glad that, six years later, we are finally able to properly bring IPDPS to New Orleans and welcome you in person…

We were fortunate to welcome three distinguished keynote speakers whose talks span important dimensions of our community. …Their keynote presentations addressed general-purpose parallelism, open-source GPU hardware and software, and interdisciplinary and inclusive computing education, respectively. Together, they reflect the breadth of our community and the evolving research and educational questions that continue to shape the field. In addition to the keynote talks, this year’s program included an all-conference panel on “How Long Should a Supercomputer Live?”. … a timely and engaging discussion, one that complemented the technical sessions by inviting broader reflection on sustainability, innovation, and the long-term future of high-performance computing systems.”

In 2025, we changed our format to hold the Workshops and Tutorials on the first two days of the conference, and this year we repeated, holding 18 workshops and 9 tutorials on the first and second days of the conference, with the Main Conferences events held on the final three days, including the PhD Forum. The conference banquet held on Thursday was an opportunity to celebrate our time in New Orleans and to pay tribute to the long-time leader and inspiration for IPDPS, the outgoing steering chair, Viktor Prasanna, and to welcome his successor, Ümit Çatalyürek

IPDPS 2026 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

IPDPS 2026 Best Paper Award

The IPDPS 2026 Best Paper Award was presented to the following paper and authors:

Fabian Czappa, Marvin Kaster, and Felix Wolf (Technical University Darmstadt), "I Like To Move It – Computation Instead of Data in the Brain", Proceedings of IPDPS, 2026

IPDPS 2026 PhD Forum Best Poster Presentation

The Best 2026 PhD Forum Poster Award was presented to:

Giuseppe Sorrentino (Politecnico di Milano) - Unleashing Heterogeneous Systems Capabilities to Enhance Compute-Intensive Workloads

2026 IEEE TCPP Service Award

The 2026 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award was presented to Anne Benoit.