18^th International Conference on Grid Computing (GridCom 2026)

September 19 ~ 20, 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark

Scope & Topics

18^th International Conference on Grid Computing (GridCom 2026) brings together researchers, practitioners, and innovators at the forefront of large scale distributed systems and service oriented computing. As modern enterprises and scientific communities increasingly rely on complex, data intensive, and computationally demanding workflows, grid computing continues to play a pivotal role in enabling seamless access to distributed processing, networking, and storage resources. By integrating these heterogeneous capabilities into a cohesive, service oriented environment, grid computing empowers the execution of advanced distributed applications across e-Science, industry, and business ecosystems.

Service oriented computing has become a foundational design paradigm for large scale business and scientific systems, and grid computing enhances this paradigm by orchestrating powerful, homogeneous distributed resources to optimize the performance of time consuming processes.

The conference aims to foster deep technical exchange, inspire new directions, and support the continued evolution of scalable, efficient, and intelligent distributed systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

• AI driven distributed systems
• Large scale AI/LLM training infrastructure
• AI native systems optimization and RL based tuning
• Confidential computing and trusted execution
• Fault tolerance, resilience and self healing systems
• Cloud–edge–grid continuum and hybrid compute
• CXL memory disaggregation andcomposable infrastructure
• Next generation grid architectures and fabrics
• High performance and computational storage
• Performance modeling, benchmarking and optimization
• Resource management, scheduling and runtime systems
• Distributed data management, provenance and FAIR systems
• Scientific, biomedical, industrial and environmental applications
• Digital twins, real time simulation and co simulation
• Quantum and hybrid distributed computing
• Middleware, programming models and service mesh architectures
• Blockchain, distributed ledgers and decentralized coordination
• Observability, telemetry and distributed tracing
• Sustainable and carbon aware computing
• Energy efficient AI training and green LLM infrastructure
• Federated learning and cross domain distributed AI
• Distributed governance, collaboration and societal implications

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by July 18, 2026. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from GridCom 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) -ERA Indexed
• International Journal of Grid Computing & Applications (IJGCA)
• International Journal of Distributed and Parallel systems (IJDPS)
• Information Technology in Industry (ITII)

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 15^th International Conference of Networks and Communications (NECO 2026)
• 15^th International Conference on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Applications (SCAI 2026)
• 15^th International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SPPR 2026)
• 16^th International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (ICCSEA 2026)
• 18^th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile Network & & Applications (WiMoA 2026)
• 17^th International Conference on Communications Security & Information Assurance (CSIA 2026)
• 17^th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBIC 2026)
• 7^th International Conference on NLP & Artificial Intelligence Techniques (NLAI 2026)
• 7^th International Conference on Machine Learning Techniques and Data Science (MLDS 2026)
• 7^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Managing Information Technology (SEMIT 2026)
• 7^th International Conference on IoT, Blockchain & Cloud Computing (IBCOM 2026)

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to gridcom@gridcom2026.org