Over approximately the last decade, quantum computing has evolved from purely laboratory research to enabling a community of quantum computational scientists with tools for the exploration and development of quantum algorithms and applications. As quantum systems have become more mature, the technology has started to reach the broad community of computational scientists, with integration of quantum systems in HPC data centers becoming more and more frequent. This new stage of development constitutes a first step towards our vision of quantum-centric supercomputing: integrated quantum and classical computing resources working in concert to run computations beyond what was possible before.
This talk will present some of the efforts along that vision, and will show how quantum computing will naturally operate synergistically with supercomputing to increase the computational reach on heterogeneous quantum and classical systems. It will also show how supercomputing can enable quantum computations previously considered in a fault-tolerant scenario. These results open a very promising path towards extracting value from quantum computers before the maturity of quantum error correction. This talk will discuss not only how quantum computing can help define the next evolution of supercomputing, but also how supercomputing can have a critical role at different stages of a quantum computation and how classical developers can already actively engage with heterogeneous workflows in integrated quantum and classical systems.
Mario Motta, Senior Research Staff Member, IBM Quantum
