“This year, there’s a lot more discussion about integration with supercomputing,” event organizer and ORNL research scientist Claire Marvinney said. “How are we integrating these quantum resources with supercomputing resources and hybrid compute capabilities? I am excited to see how this topic will progress.”
QCUP began in 2017 and is funded by DOE’s Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research program. Since then, it continues to grow worldwide.
As a user program, participants work closely with ORNL connections from a variety of scientific domains so they can be connected with quantum resources to support their research.
This year’s forum highlighted recent research results through workshops and keynote talks on the latest in quantum hardware, methods for mapping problems onto quantum computers and results from scaling up scientific applications of quantum computing. The forum also featured interactive workshops on topics such as the quantum computing service Amazon Braket and the quantum computing platform Quantinuum Nexxus, where users were able to get hands-on assistance from vendors.
“It was a good vibe,” Pavel Lougovski, principal researcher with Amazon Web Services, said. “It was interesting for us to talk with users, make connections and understand what problems they are facing right now.”
Day two of the event included a poster session where 36 posters were on display showing a variety of quantum computing projects. Users were able to vote for their favorite posters, and those researchers were awarded certificates on the final day of the forum.
Three winning posters earned the majority of votes during the poster session:
- “QFw: Quantum Framework with NWQ-Sim and TN-QVM” submitted by Srikar Chundury, North Carolina State University
- “Efficient Multidimensional Quantum Convolutional Classification” submitted by Esam El-Araby, University of Kansas
- “Quantum Simulations of Many-Body Neutrino Conversions in Supernovae” submitted by Zoha Laraib, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
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