High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing 2023
Anche quest’anno, come ogni anno dal 2018, CINECA e Università degli Studi di Milano hanno organizzato l’ormai consueto workshop “High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing”.
Arrivato alla sua sesta edizione, HPCQC è da sempre dedicato alla divulgazione dei recenti risultati raggiunti a livello europeo nel campo del quantum computing e dell’HPC. I relatori sono scelti tra figure di spicco del mondo accademico e industriale.
L’evento quest’anno è stato costituito da quattro sessioni, con un’ampia panoramica sull‘environnement europeo e italiano, con uno sguardo alle varie iniziative Italiane ed Europee che ruotano intorno al mondo del quantum computing. Si è parlato anche dell’aspetto pratico, ovvero della costruzione di un quantum computer, dove hanno tenuto banco i grandi nomi dell’industria dell’informatica, con la partecipazione di IBM, D-Wave e Pasqal.
A seguire, la terza sessione è stata dedicata all’esplorazione di software ibridi HPC-QC, con interventi delle maggiori startup produttrici di software, come Eviden, NVIDIA, Qperfetc e SeeQC.
Da ultimo, la quarta sessione ha occupato l’intera seconda giornata, ed è stata dedicata alle Università e Centri di Ricerca, dove esponenti del mondo accademico hanno discusso di come l’applicazione di tecnologie quantistiche possa portare innovazione nei processi di ricerca.
Agenda
Day One: 14/12/2023
09:30 – 10:30 Check in
10:30 – 10:45 Sanzio Bassini, CINECA – Welcome
10:45 – 11:30 David DiVincenzo, JSC – Engineering the Quantum Computer
Session I – European and Italian Initiatives– Chairperson: Daniele Ottaviani
- 11:30 – 12:00 Sabine Mehr, GENCI – EUROQHPC-I European prospects for HPC-QC integration
- 12:00 – 12:30 Simone Montangero, University of Padova – Quantum Computing activities of the National Center – Fondazione ICSC
12:30 – 13:35 Lunch
Session II – Building quantum computers – Chairperson: Riccardo Mengoni
- 13:35 – 14:00 Jani Heikkinen, IQM – IQM’s approach to HPC market and integration
- 14:00 – 14:25 Federico Mattei, IBM – IBM Quantum Computing: new steps towards quantum advantage
- 14:25 – 14:50 Andy Mason, D-Wave –Production Use Cases
- 14:50 – 15:15 Krisztian Benyo, Pasqal – How to get tangible results with a PASQAL machine today
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
Session III – Hybrid HPC-QC software and Quantum Start-ups – Chairperson: Sara Marzella
- 15:45 – 16:10 Julien Mellaerts, Eviden – Towards an High Performance Hybrid Computing
- 16:10 – 16:35 Esperanza Cuenca Gómez, Nvidia – Programming Quantum-Accelerated Supercomputers with CUDA Quantum
- 16:35 – 16:50 Guido Masella, Qperfect – Large scale quantum for everyone
- 16:50 – 17:05 Marco Arzeo, SeeQC – Chips-based Quantum Computing for better integration with High-Performance Computing
Day Two: 15/12/2023
Session IV – Universities and research centers – Chairperson Enrico Prati
- 09:00 – 09:15 Antonella Guidazzoli, CINECA Visit Lab – Unraveling Quantum Computing: A CG Video Guide for Diverse Audiences
- 09:15 – 09:30 Sara Marzella, CINECA Quantum Computing Lab – HPC Quantum Computing Emulators on Leonardo – The “Quantum Suite”
- 09:30 – 09:45 Amer Delilbasic, Forschungszentum Jülich / University of Iceland – Quantum Computing for Earth Observation (QC4EO) Study
- 09:45 – 10:00 Gonzalo Ferro, CESGA – The NEASQC Benchmark Suite (TNBS)
- 10:00 – 10:30 Marco Govoni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia – Simulating condensed systems on quantum computers with quantum embedding
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00 – 11:15 Matteo Flocco, LINKS Foundation/Polytechnic University of Turin – Solving Graph Coloring with 256 qubit neutral atoms platform
- 11:15 – 11:30 Sebastiano Corli, UniMi – A Max K-Cut Implementation for QAOA: comparing HPC simulation of gate-based and measurement-based quantum computing architectures
- 11:30 – 11:45 Manuel Peracci, Polytechnic University of Milan – Neutral atom quantum computing scheduling by deep reinforcement learning
- 11:45 – 12:00 Simone Tibaldi, University of Bologna – Bayesian Optimization for QAOA
- 12:00 – 12:30 Leonardo Guidoni, University of L’Aquila – Low-depth Variational algorithms for Chemistry
- 12:30 – 12:45 Filippo Caruso, University of Florence – Machine learning based noise characterization and correction on neutral atoms NISQ devices
- 12:45 – 13:00 Luca Aspron, Data Reply; Christian Mattia, Intesa Sanpaolo – Diversifying Investments and Maximizing Sharpe Ratio: a novel QUBO formulation
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 – 14:15 Filippo Orazi, University of Bologna – Hybrid Quantum Technologies for Quantum Support Vector Machines
- 14:15 – 14:30 Matteo Vandelli, Leonardo S.p.a. – Challenges to gate-based quantum optimization algorithms for industrial use-cases
- 14:30 – 14:45 Gabriele Cenedese, University of Insubria & INFN Milano – Targeting quantum many-body scars with shallow variational quantum circuits
- 14:45 – 15:00 Luca Nigro, University of Milan – Application of hybrid quantum-classical computing algorithms for quantum simulation of nuclear physics processes
- 15:00 – 15:15 Tommaso Fioravanti, IBM – Towards An End-To-End Approach For Quantum Principal Component Analysis
- 15:15 – 15:30 Giuliana Siddi Moreau, CRS4 – Two quantum adiabatic optimization use cases for the energy sector
- 15:30 – 15:45 Marco De Pascale, LRZ Upscaling – QC simulators on HPC Systems
- 15:45 – 16:00 Marco Ballarin, University of Padova – Qmatchatea: a tensor network emulator for quantum circuits on Leonardo
16:00 – 16:10 Greetings
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