HQI and NumPEx are two national projects on quantum and high-performance computing. HQI aims at creating a hybrid HPC quantum computing platform while NumPEx aims at creating software for future exascale machines.
HQI: Hybrid HPC Quantum Initiative
The HQI (Hybrid HPC Quantum Initiative) project aims at designing and setting up a hybrid HPC quantum computing platform to promote and facilitate the use of quantum computing in a HPC environment. The project will also support scientific communities to help them in the use of this new technology. The project is organized in 9 work packages (WP).
Université Paris-Saclay is involved in WP1 (lead by ATOS) that covers the integration of the multiple QPU, acquired in the purchase part of the global programme, the evolution of the emulation platform based on ATOS QLM and the joint use of classical and quantum computing to achieve a digital treatment.
Marc Baboulin (ParSys team) works on the development of tools for the simulation/emulation of hybrid classical-quantum algorithms.
PEPR NumPEx
The Digital PEPR for the Exascale (NumPEx) aims at designing and developing the software components and tools that will equip future exascale machines and to prepare the major application domains to fully exploit the capabilities of these machines. These major application domains include both scientific research and the industrial sector. This project therefore contributes to France's response to the next EuroHPC call for expressions of interest (AMI) (Exascale France Project), with a view to hosting one of the two European exascale machines planned in Europe by 2024. The French consortium has chosen GENCI as its "Hosting Entity" and the CEA TGCC as its "Hosting Center".
Université Paris-Saclay is involved in the "Integrated project research" Exasoft which addresses the software design and development, libraries and tools dedicated to massive, accelerated and heterogeneous parallelism and linking HPC, HPDA and IA issues. In this project UPsaclay is also leading the work package related to numerical libraries.
Marc Baboulin (ParSys team) coordinates Work Package 4 (software libraries) of the Exa-soft project of NumPEx. Together with Oguz Kaya, they work on the decomposition and contraction of tensors (see ParSys portfolio).