PROGRAMME
August 25th
09:00 – 09:30: Opening
09:30 – 10:30: INVITED SPEAKER
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Lukas Burgholzer
Technical University of Munich / MQSC
QDMI in Practice: Connecting Quantum Backends, Cloud Services, and HPC Workflows
Abstract:
Integrating quantum computers into HPC environments is increasingly less about gaining access to a QPU and more about making that access usable across hardware providers, cloud services, schedulers, and user-facing software.
This talk shares practical perspectives on how the Quantum Device Management Interface (QDMI) can help standardize this hardware–software boundary. Using two recent case studies, I will discuss QDMI integrations with IQM superconducting systems in Slurm- and Qiskit-oriented HPC workflows, as well as its use for unified access toheterogeneous cloud backends through Amazon Braket.
The examples show how a shared interface can simplify integration work that is otherwise repeated for each provider and deployment setting. I will reflect on what has worked in practice, where the remaining challenges lie, and how QDMI can help HPC centers and quantum-software developers build more reusable paths from experimental systems to operational workflows.
Bio:
Lukas Burgholzer is CTO and co-founder of MQSC and a Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Munich’s Chair for Design Automation. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2023. His work spans the quantum computing software stack, from simulation, compilation, and verification to HPCQC integration. He oversees the development of the Munich Quantum Toolkit (MQT) and the Munich Quantum Software Stack (MQSS), and is a lead developer and maintainer of the Quantum Device Management Interface (QDMI), an emerging defacto standard for interoperable quantum-hardware integration. He has published 80+ papers, with over 2.6k citations and an h-index of 30. His work has received, among others, the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award and the Heinz Zemanek Prize.
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10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
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11:00 – 13:00: TECHNICAL SESSION I
• Giacomo Lancellotti (Politecnico di Milano), Giovanni Agosta (Politecnico di Milano), Alessandro Barenghi (Politecnico di Milano), and Gerardo Pelosi (Politecnico di Milano). Mesoscopic Aware Hierarchical Layouts for Lattice Surgery Quantum Compilation
• Uxía Sendón Caamaño (Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)), Álvaro Carballido Costas (Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)), and Andrés Gómez (Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)). From ECR to Generalized Gate Support: Extending the Qulacs Quantum Simulator
• Gabriele Incardona (University of Parma), Davide Ferrari (University of Parma), and Michele Amoretti (University of Parma). Parallel QEC Decoding Applied to Distributed Quantum Computing
• Guillermo Díaz-Camacho (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)), Iago F. Llovo (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA), F. Javier Cardama (Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)), Irais Bautista (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)), Daniel Faílde (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)), Mariamo Mussa Juane (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)), Jorge Vázquez-Pérez (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)), Natalia Costas (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)), Tomás F. Pena (University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)), and Andrés Gómez (Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)). Benchmarking Distributed Quantum Computing Emulators: Scalability, Fidelity, and Architectural Trade-offs
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13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
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14:00 – 15:30: TECHNICAL SESSION II
• Marta Losada (Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA) and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Andrés Gómez Tato (Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)), and Daniel Faílde Balea (Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)). Distributed VQE: Embarrassingly Parallel Strategies on NISQ
• Jesús Cerrudo-Herrera (Fundación COMPUTAEX), Javier Sereno-Fernández (Fundación COMPUTAEX), Ahmed Ziabat-Ziabat (Fundación COMPUTAEX), Pablo Polo-Alcántara (Fundación COMPUTAEX), and Juan Antonio Rico-Gallego (Fundación COMPUTAEX). Implementing an Entanglement-Agnostic DEGGA via Virtual Quantum Communication using CUNQA
• Marco Mordacci (University of Parma) and Michele Amoretti (University of Parma). Approximate Quantum State Preparation Through Proximal Policy Optimization
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15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break
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16:00 – 16:30: TECHNICAL SESSION III
Stefano Markidis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). Practical Considerations for Processing Massive Classical Data via Quantum Oracle Sketching
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16:30 – 18:00: Workshop Discussion and Closing Remarks
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