This Book Constitutes The Refereed Proceedings Of The 8th International Symposium On Parallel Architecture, Algorithm And Programming, Paap 2017, Held In Haikou, China, In June 2017. The 50 Revised Full Papers And 7 Revised Short Papers Presented Were Carefully Reviewed And Selected From 192 Submissions. The Papers Deal With Research Results And Development Activities In All Aspects Of Parallel Architectures, Algorithms And Programming Techniques.