The area of scalable computing has matured and reached a point where new issues and trends require a professional forum. SCPE provides this avenue by publishing original refereed papers that address the present as well as the future of parallel and distributed computing. The journal focus on algorithm development, implementation and execution on parallel and distributed architectures, as well on application of parallel and distributed computing to the solution of real-life problems.

SCPE is an electronic journal. It provides immediate open access to its content following the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

The journal has evolve with the community that it represents. Initiated in 1998 under the name of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices (PDCP) journal, first 5 volumes have been published by Nova Science Publishers. Next 4 volumes were sustained by published by Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland, only as electronic journal, as an expression of the current tendencies in digital libraries. The electronic journal is currently published by West University of Timisoara, Romania, with the support of highly-devoted international editorial team.More information about changes that took place can be found in the Editorial published in SCPE 6(1) and SCPE 9(4).

In 2013, the SCPE's SNIP (Scopus Source Normalized Impact per Paper)  was 0.619 and SCPE's SJR (Scimago Journal Ranking) was 0.151 (previous year values where: SNIP 0.376 and SJR 0.105). These values are available here (search for "Scalable Computing"). SCPE's SJIF factor was 2.785 in 2012.