High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing 2024
This year, as every year since 2018, CINECA and the University of Milan have once again organised the now customary “High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing” workshop.
Now in its seventh edition, HPCQC has confirmed its role as a meeting point for the dissemination of the latest European-level achievements in the field of quantum computing and HPC.
The 2024 edition placed particular emphasis on the Italian quantum ecosystem, with a focus on the emerging quantum startups and the development of quantum computing in Italy, alongside contributions from leading international companies and research institutions.
Agenda
Day One 12-12-24
09:30 – 10:20 Registration
10:20 – 10:30 Emilia-Romagna Region – Bologna’s Technopole
10:30 – 10:45 Sanzio Bassini (CINECA ) – Welcome
10:45 – 11:30 Ivano Tavernelli (IBM Quantum Keynote) – Quantum computing in the utility era
11:30 – 11:50 Daniele Ottaviani (CINECA ) – Quantum Computing Lab Update
Session I – CINECA partners for Quantum Computing – Chairperson: Daniele Ottaviani
- 11:50 – 12:15 Hermanni Heimonen (IQM ) – IQM Radiance – the quantum computer for HPC centers
- 12:15 – 12:40 Vincent Martin (Pasqal) – Presentation of Pasqal quantum computer: from neutral atoms to use cases
- 12:40 – 13:05 Axel Daian (D-Wave) – Quantum Computing for Practical Applications
13:05 – 15:00 Lunch + Tour of the Technopole
Session 2: QC Made in Italy I – Chairperson: Sara Marzella
- 15:25 – 15:50 Francesco Tafuri (University of Naples Federico II) – Superconducting hardware of a quantum computer: physics, implementation, operation and perspectives
- 15:50 – 16:15 Simone Cialdi (University of Milan) – TQ4C – a loop-architecture photonic quantum computer
16:15 – 16:35 Coffee Break
Session 3: QC Made in Italy II – Chairperson: Anita Camillini
- 16:35 – 17:00 Roberto Osellame (Ephos Inc./CNR) – Integrated quantum photonic processors, a path toward a photonic quantum compute
- 17:00 – 17:25 Fabio Sciarrino (University of Rome “Sapienza”) – Photonics platform for quantum computing: hardware and applications
- 17:25 – 17:50 Roberto Siagri (Rotonium) – Edge-Centric Quantum Computing: The Next Frontier
- 17:50 – 18:15 Daniel Szombati ( Planckian ) – A globally-driven superconducting quantum computing architecture
Day Two 13-12-24
Session 4: Universities and Research Centers I – Chairperson: Enrico Prati
- 09:30 – 09:50 Lorenzo Pisani (CRS4) – Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) for urban transport applications solved by means of adiabatic quantum computers
- 09:50 – 10:15 Domenico Bonanni (University of L’Aquila) – Molecular Structure Generation and Docking with Quantum Computing
- 10:15 – 10:50 Rebecca Casati (University of Milan) – Adiabatic Quantum Computing and Hybrid quantum-classical methods for Job Shop Scheduling problems
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
- 11:10 – 11:35 Antonio Policicchio (NTT DATA) – Application of variational circuits to a Soft Actor-Critic framework for continuous control tasks
- 11:35 – 12:00 Elisabetta Boella (E4) – SmartHPC.QC: evaluating the impact of malleability for HPC-QC integration
- 12:00 – 12:25 Vito Palmisano (CINECA/ParTec) –High-Performance Quantum Emulation: Benchmarking Statevector and Tensor Network Emulators on Leonardo and Introducing QMatchaTEA’s Capabilities
- 12:25 – 12:50 Francesco Monzani (University of Milan) – Leveraging non-unital noise for gate-based quantum reservoir computing
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 5: Universities and Research Centers II – Chairperson: Paolo Zentilini
- 14:00 – 14:25 Francesco Turro (Leonardo Labs) – Solving Fluid dynamics on a quantum computer
- 14:25 – 14:50 Leonardo Guidoni (University of L’Aquila) – Quantum Information and State preparation in Quantum Chemistry
- 14:50 – 15:10 Michele Vischi (University of Trieste) – Simulating photonic devices with noisy optical elements
- 15:10 – 15:35 Giorgio Panichi (University of Milan) – Embodiment of quantum physics informed neural networks to solve differential equation over a continuous-wave quantum computer
- 15:35 – 15:55 Emiliano Poli (University of Padua) – Performance assessment of different Variational Quantum Eigensolver algorithms via Matrix Product States powered quantum computer emulator
15:55 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Session 6: Universities and Research Centers III – Chairperson: Luca Nigro
- 16:15 – 16:40 Paolo Zentilini (University of Milan) – Emulation of QAOA via graph neural networks
- 16:40 – 17:00 Federico Gallina ( University of Padua) – Simulating Non-Markovian Dynamics in Multidimensional Electronic Spectroscopy via Quantum Algorithm
- 17:00 – 17:20 Domenico Del Prete (University of Naples Federico II) – An Interoperability Middleware between Two Computing Universes: HPC and Quantum Computing (HPC-QC)
- 17:20 – 17:40 Gianluca Teza (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems) – Finite temperature criticality in a quantum annealer
- 17:40 – 18:00 Ilaria Siloi (University of Padua ) – Tensor Network approach for factoring RSA numbers