The bigger picture

If you want to find out more about distributed computing you should take a look at IEEE Distributed Systems online.

Journals

This is a list of journals in the field of parallel and distributed computing.

• IEEE trans Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE)
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Academic Press)
• Distributed Computing (Springer-Verlag)
• Parallel Computing
• Parallel Processing Letters
• Concurrency: Practice and Experience

Related journals

These are journals which regularly publish articles from the field of parallel and distributed computing.

• Computer
• IEEE trans systems, man and cybernetics
• IEEE trans software engineering
• Computer Surveys

Conferences

These are the most notable conferences in the field. Deadlines for conferences can be found on IEEE Distributed Systems online. If you have firefox then you will notice that you can subscribe an RSS feed with next 10 deadlines coming up.

• International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium - IPDPS
• International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing - ISPDC
• Supercomputing

Newsgroups

• comp.parallel - Main newsgroup on parallel processing. Its good for calls for papers.

Essential reading

If you want to find out more about the world of parallel and distributed computing read these books and articles.

• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms - Andrew S. Tanenbaum