The Convergence of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Quantum Computing (QC) to Solve Science Grand Challenges

Tom Beck — becktl@ornl.gov

Travis Humble — humblets@ornl.gov

Quantum computing (QC) is emerging as a game-changing computing technology that will tackle challenging computational tasks not solvable with classical high performance computing architectures. After several decades of theoretical and experimental progress in quantum science, recent discoveries and technical advances are showing that quantum acceleration of traditional algorithms holds promise to revolutionize computational science in multiple fields.

Challenges facing quantum computing include further development of qubits that maintain low error rates, error correction methods, software that connects quantum computers to classical supercomputers, and application algorithms that efficiently exploit the quantum advantage to solve grand challenge science problems.

The purpose of this quantum computing workshop is to accelerate innovation in the field by collecting in one place leading commercial vendors, quantum science experts, and domain scientists who use quantum algorithms in fields such as chemistry, materials science, optimization, biomedicine, fluid dynamics, AI/ML, and banking.

With a view towards proposing a roadmap for quantum computing algorithms in the next five to ten years, the workshop will focus on 1) the development of the first stage of fault tolerant algorithms directed at various applications and 2) the hardware/software interface to create flexible infrastructure that allows for rapid installation and testing of new quantum architectures without ’reinventing the wheel’ for each technology.

This workshop will include the leading vendors developing new qubit technologies and a range of computer and domain scientists developing software frameworks for integrating quantum computers into classical infrastructure and algorithms to be deployed on applications. Accelerated discovery is likely to occur at that boundary.

Goals are to create a "maker space" that closely ties computer scientists to real world applications of quantum computing and document the resulting roadmap through a publication.

Notes:
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