Charm++ parallel programming system

["Padua, David A" <padua AT illinois.edu>]

Dear members of the architecture, compilers, and parallel computing area,

 

I am writing to encourage you to attend the upcoming seminar by Fred Chong on Quantum computing. Besides the topic being of great interest, it is important that as many students in related areas as possible attend this seminar.

 

The seminar announcement follows

 

David

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closing the Gap Between Algorithms and Machines with Hardware-Software Co-Design

 

A Seminar Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science

Guest Speaker: Fred Chong, Seymour Goodman Professor, University of Chicago

Date/Time: Friday, September 20, 2019, 10 am

Location: 2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

 

Abstract:  Quantum computing is at an inflection point, where 79-qubit (quantum bit) machines are being tested, 100-qubit machines are just around the corner, and even 1000-qubit machines are perhaps only a few years away.  These machines have the potential to fundamentally change our concept of what is computable and demonstrate practical applications in areas such as quantum chemistry, optimization, and quantum simulation.

 

Yet a significant resource gap remains between practical quantum algorithms and real machines.  The key to closing this gap is to develop techniques to specialize algorithms for hardware and vice versa.  Quantum computing is the ultimate vertically-integrated domain-specific application, and computer scientists are sorely needed to tackle grand challenges that include programming language design, software and hardware verification, debugging and visualization tools, defining and perforating abstraction boundaries, cross-layer optimization, managing parallelism and communication, mapping and scheduling computations, reducing control complexity, machine-specific optimizations, learning error patterns, and many more.  I will describe recent progress from our EPiQC NSF Expedition in Computing, as well as some of the remaining challenges to be solved on the road to practical quantum computing.

 

Bio:  Fred Chong is the Seymour Goodman Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is also Lead Principal Investigator for the EPiQC Project (Enabling Practical-scale Quantum Computing), an NSF Expedition in Computing. Chong received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1996 and was a faculty member and Chancellor’s fellow at UC Davis from 1997-2005. He was also a Professor of Computer Science, Director of Computer Engineering, and Director of the Greenscale Center for Energy-Efficient Computing at UCSB from 2005-2015. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, and 6 best paper awards. His research interests include emerging technologies for computing, quantum computing, multicore and embedded architectures, computer security, and sustainable computing.  Prof. Chong has been funded by NSF, DOE, Intel, Google, AFOSR, IARPA, DARPA, Mitsubishi, Altera and Xilinx. He has led or co-led over $40M in awarded research, and been co-PI on an additional $35M.