Distributed Computing and Grid-technologies in Science and Education The 8-th International Conference Monday, September 10, 2018 - Friday, September 14, 2018 LIT, JINR Dubna,Russia This is a unique Conference, held in Russia on the questions related to the use of distributed computing in various areas of science, education, industry and business. The main purpose of the Conferenceis to discuss the current Grid operation and the future role of the distributed and cloud computing, HPC, BigData etc. in Russia and worldwide. The Conference provides a platform for discussing fresh results and for establishing contacts for closer cooperation in future. URL: GRID'2018 Organizers: JINR Laboratory of Information Technologies, Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University Sponsors: JINR, Huawei, IBS Platformix, NIAGARA, Supermicro, Jet Infosystems, APC SE, NVIDIA, Dell EMC, Dell EMC, Intel, Cisco, EXTREME, Softline, Open System Publication, parallel.ru and International scientific journal «Modern Information Technologies and IT-Education»