SC24 BoF

High-Performance Computing systems that have been traditionally deployed at a single site are expected to significantly expand their reach to include a variety of remote edge systems. These edge systems include computing platforms located near instruments as well as instruments themselves. Examples range from interconnected ecosystems of large science instruments to smart energy grids supported by complex analytics and control. These interconnected systems form a compute and instrument continuum wherein computation is orchestrated in various stages. This BoF will discuss the role of quantum networks in communicating between quantum, conventional, and hybrid systems to enable continuum computing of the future.

Georgia World Congress Center
Tuesday, November 19 2024
12:15pm - 1:15pm EST
Room B306

SC24 attendees are encouraged to submit questions and comments for the panelists using this link.

Session Leader

Neena Imam
Peter O'Donnell Jr. Director
O'Donnell Data Science and Research Computing Institute
Southern Methodist University

Additional Session Leaders

Nagi Rao
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Rao joined ORNL in 1993. He is currently a Corporate Fellow. He received B. Tech (1982) from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, M.E. (1984) from School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and Ph.D. (1988) in computer science from Louisiana State University. His research areas include high performance and quantum networking, information fusion, machine learning, and federations of science instruments. He is PI of DOE PiQSci: Performance Integrated Quantum Scalable Internet project. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received 2005 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award and 2014 R&D 100 Award.

Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia
PsiQuantum
Dr. Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia is VP of System Architecture at PsiQuantum Corp. She received her PhD from Imperial College London for her work on linear optical quantum computing architectures. After postdoctoral positions in Bristol (UK) and Calgary (Canada), she joined PsiQuantum in 2017, where she leads a team working on the design and development of an architecture for universal fault-tolerant quantum computing using silicon photonics.

Kalyan Perumalla
DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Kalyan Perumalla is a federal program manager in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Office of Science, within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Before joining DOE, he spent 17 years in research and managerial roles up to Distinguished Research Staff Member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and, prior to that, held research appointments for eight years at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK; served as joint full professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee; and was adjunct faculty at Georgia Tech and the University of Nebraska. He was the elected chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Simulation (SIGSIM) for the terms 2020-2024.