The Future of High Performance Quantum Computing

We have nearly reached the era of exascale computing. Today, Supercomputer Fugaku at RIKEN is the world’s fastest computer, with a LINPACK peak of 537.2 PFlop/s and a power requirement of 29.9 MW. Within the next few months (or sooner) the scientific community will enjoy early science on a sustained exaflop computer. The first US exascale platform, which will be housed at ORNL, will be built on a heterogeneous combination of CPUs and GPUs. Quantum computing hardware will be one of the promising technologies that one day will become an accelerator on future high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. Before the advent of high performance quantum computing (HP-QC), researchers will need to overcome key roadblocks in quantum state resilience, controllability, and ultimately scalability of quantum technologies. In this talk, I will discuss some of the exciting research directions, such as quantum algorithms for lattice QCD, taking place in the Quantum Science Center, a U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Center, that addresses these challenges.