HPCQ 2023: The International Workshop on “When HPC meet Quantum Computing: From System Design to Applications” |
Website | https://hpcq-sca.github.io/hpcq-sca |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpcq2023 |
HPCQ 2023 workshop focuses on an emerging and impactful topic – Quantum Computing (QC), which is a rapidly-emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to potentially solve problems too complex for classical high performance computing (HPC). In order to utilize QC to solve complex problems, in the past few years, both academia and industry have invested in QC, achieving tremendous growth worldwide in terms of quantum hardware, quantum software and application of QC in key use cases.
The integration of HPC and QC is a highly relevant topic of interest: for example, EU’s quantum flagship has pioneered the drafting of the EuroQCS: European Quantum Computing & Simulation Infrastructure whitepaper which specifically pointed out the importance of integrating quantum computers as part of the HPC infrastructure. In the private-public sector, IQM and LRZ also announced their technical whitepaper towards HPC-QC integration recently. Many important conferences, such as ISC22 and QCE22 have specific workshop sessions discussing the topic of HPC-QC integration. It is clear that the field is developing consensus in the near future for quantum computer systems as part of HPC centres, i.e., quantum computer-accelerated supercomputers. We would like to leverage this workshop in hope of addressing the following questions:
- What is the right relationship between HPC and QC, or where exactly does quantum computing fit in classical high performance computing infrastructures?
- How to build the classical/quantum hybrid computing system considering both hardware and software integration to realize potential advantage of the NISQ quantum computers? What will be the technical challenges in realizing such hybrid systems?
- What quantum algorithms and applications can benefit from HPC and QC integration?
- What will be Asia’s roadmap towards HPC+Q?
- How may end users and stakeholders benefit from HPC+Q?
First, as advocated in EuroQCS infrastructure, quantum computers and simulators are positioned to be integrated into the HPC supercomputing infrastructure, where the relationship between HPC and QC is addressed. Important research questions include how and where exactly in the technical full stack the integration should be realized, how the design paradigm and design environment should be upgraded and repurposed to efficiently serve both the classical and quantum components of real-world problems.
Second, there are fundamentally different quantum technology/hardware and qubit realization that have been evolving, so as their full-stack software eco-system. With considerable diversity in the ever-changing, hardware-software coupled, hybrid HPC+Q systems, comes new challenges, such as how to organically organize the full stack software to decouple the hardware independent layers/libraries from the hardware dependent ones so as to achieve both generalizability of quantum solutions and hardware-specific optimization simultaneously. In addition, based on current NISQ QC specs and the extrapolated QC capacity growth, connectivity/latency improvement, etc. in the future, how should we rethink the overall HPC architecture, especially the compute/memory resource accessible to QC as well as the interconnect with QC so that potential performance bottlenecks could be resolved, and performance/efficiency maximized.
At last, various kinds of quantum algorithm and applications could potentially benefit from such a hybrid HPC+Q system including simulation, optimization, and machine learning which are wildly utilized in many key areas such as supply chain, finance, bioinformatics, etc.
HPC+Q workshop will offer a timely collection of information to benefit researchers and practitioners working in the broad research fields of HPC, quantum computing, and HPC-supported key application areas including simulation, optimization, and machine learning.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. All papers need to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair. The submission link will be available soon. Submitted papers must be at most 18 pages in PDF format including figures and references, formatted according to the ACM Proceedings Style. The ACM templates for Word and LaTeX are shown below. Also, ACM has partnered with Overleaf and the ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf platform is available.
Please follow STEP 1 (Microsoft Word/LaTeX) at 2. The Workflow and Templates in https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions Please note that there are two different instructions for Word and LaTeX template users. The paper format is also described in the “Paper Submission” section of HPCAsia2023”
All submissions will go through a single blind peer review process and accepted papers will be considered for oral and poster presentations at HPC+Q. The decision on presentation format will be based primarily on an assessment of the breadth of interest, and the construction.
List of Topics
- Architecture of the hybrid HPC-QC computing system
- Software and middleware framework of the hybrid HPC-QC computing system
- Scheduling and resource management of the hybrid HPC-QC computing system
- Control electronics of the hybrid HPC-QC computing system
Organizing Committees
- Luo Tao (Chair), Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- Yang Liwei, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- Huang Tian, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- Kong Jian Feng, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- Ye Jun, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Invited Speakers
Keynote speeches
- Prof Satoshi Matsuoka (Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science)
- Prof José Ignacio Latorre (Director, Centre for Quantum Technologies)
Invited talks
- Mikael Johansson ohansson (CSC – IT Center for Science)
- Eric Kievit (Qblox Quantum)
- Bruno G. Taketani (IQM Quantum Computers)
- JIN-SUNG KIM (Nvidia, QODA+Nvidia’s overall quantum strategy)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Huang_Tian@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg