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Quantum Innovation Summit -shaping the future through quantum innovations
The Quantum Innovation Summit , a major event for the global quantum technology landscape, fosters groundbreaking advancements by creating an international hub where leaders, innovators, policymakers, investors, and academics advance the quantum sector. The annual theme for the event in Dubai in late February 2025 was “Quantum Frontiers: Innovating for a Secure Future.” Our colleague, Attila Marosi, participated in the conference as part of the Hungarian delegation. The global summit examined how quantum technologies can play a pivotal role in addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges, from enhancing global security to promoting sustainable development and ensuring a safer, more resilient future. Quantum Innovation Summit shapes the future of technology through quantum innovations and contributes to a global effort to harness the potential of quantum technologies.
If you think AI is hot, wait until it meets Quantum Computing
The European Big Data Value Forum ( EBDVF ) brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI. In 2024 the event took place in Budapest, Hungary 02-04 October. Miklós Kozlovszky was invited to give a presentation on Quantum Computing in the session called ‘If you think AI is hot, wait until it meets Quantum Computing’. In his talk, he highlighted the application areas where AII can assist quantum computing in stabilising computations and optimising quantum algorithms.
A Hybrid Reference Architecture for Cloud-based Quantum Computing Microservices with an Aerial-Ground Cooperative Robot Mapping Use Case
The annual EGI conference, EGI2024, took place in Lecce, Italy from September 30th to October 04th. The conference attracted computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policymakers who share the same agenda: to take data-intensive processing and analytics to the next level and to boost European research and innovation. Attila Farkas, HUN-REN SZTAKI LPDS researcher showcased the Quantum Reference Architecture, which is available for users on the HUN-REN Cloud. In his demonstration, Farkas presented a reference architecture that combines cloud computing and quantum resources for easier initiation of experiments across diverse quantum computing resources. This solution simplifies distributed quantum computing simulations in traditional cloud environments and provides access to remote quantum computing resources. The reference architecture is portable and adaptable to different cloud platforms, offering efficient utilisation and application opportunities for research communities. It incorporates essential quantum software development kits (SDKs), machine learning support, and access to various quantum devices. To demonstrate the benefits of this service/solution Farkas presented a use case focusing on Cooperative Aerial-Ground 3D Mapping.
Recent Advances in Quantum Computing and Technology - international scientific conference
The ReAQCT 2024 conference co-organized by HUN-REN SZTAKI gathers the key players of the quantum scene fostering collaborations in the field. The event hosted by the Bosch Budapest Innovation Campus welcomed numerous distinguished speakers from all over Europe.
The Recent Advances in Quantum Computing and Technology (ReAQCT) 2024 is a novel scientific conference that aims to bring together scientists and industry experts from the Quantum Computing and Technology domain. This year’s edition focused on the following topics:
- Quantum Algorithms&Information,
- Quantum Error Detection,
- Quantum Software Engineering,
- HPC and Quantum Computing,
- Quantum Sensing.
The two-day event was organised in collaboration with Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Óbuda University, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics and Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI). The conference was rather intense enumerating 50+ speakers and introducing 80+ posters covering the different aspects of the quantum domain. The detailed programme and material can be found here.
Quantum Computing
We hear more and more about quantum computers, quantum supremacy, quantum algorithms threatening traditional solutions for secure communication, quantum accelerators revolutionising supercomputing. What is the status of this not-so-new but rapidly developing technology, which is now attracting more and more attention? What is it already capable of and what is it not yet? What can we expect from it in the foreseeable future? Will it replace our well-known, traditional IT tools and methods based on Neumanian principles, or is this unlikely for the time being? Is it worth exploring and, if so, where should we start? These are the fascinating questions we seek answers to, and the arguments for and against, in this short summary presentation.
The dawn of the quantum (IT) era
Presentation about the basic concepts, the present results and future expectations about quantum computing.
"Introduction to quantum computing" workshop and a presentation ("Quantum computing: is it the future already?")
The basics of quantum computing, types of quantum computers, how they work, programming, comparing quantum computers with conventional computers, the importance of quantum computers, potential applications, limitations and difficulties, the state of the art and future milestones. Practical options for access to quantum computer simulators and real quantum computers, use of the HUN-REN Cloud quantum reference architecture.
EuroHPC Summit week 2024, Antwerpen
Session: Synergising Quantum and HPC for Future Technologies; Session: Industrial and Academic Usage of Quantum Computers
Toward a Quantum-Science Gateway: A Hybrid Reference Architecture Facilitating Quantum Computing Capabilities for Cloud Utilization
The emerging availability of quantum compute resources fosters the examination of its exploitation possibilities in different scientific domains, like artificial intelligence, manufacturing or finance. A significant number of research scientists primarily rely on cloud computing infrastructures while conducting research, whereas access to real (mostly remote) quantum hardware resources requires the deployment and proper configuration of different software components. In this paper we present a hybrid, cloud-based reference architecture that lowers the entry barrier to start new experiments with a wide range of quantum compute resources. The solution facilitates the execution of distributed quantum computing simulations in traditional cloud environments, and also access to several remote quantum compute resources. The reference architecture is highly portable to various cloud platforms, resulting in efficient adaptation and application possibilities by research communities. The paper describes our related experiences using commercial cloud providers and on the federated, OpenStack-based research infrastructure of the Hungarian Research Network
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10356051
Quantum Computing and the Supercomputers, The HUN-REN Cloud and its quantum reference architecture
A comparison of traditional high performance computing and the quantum computing paradigm. Differences and similarities, cooperation, directions of development, application possibilities. The HUN-REN Cloud reference architecture concept and its quantum reference architecture
https://nik.uni-obuda.hu/high-performance-computing-konferencia-2023/
European Quantum Technology Conference, Hannover
Every two years, the Quantum Flagship gathers the major European research and innovation networks at the European Quantum Technology Conference (EQTC). As the largest quantum event of its kind, we celebrate breakthroughs, highlight the pioneering work of European organisations and connect the dots within the community.
Reference architectures for cloud continuum: convergence vs. diversification
We are the witnesses of new emerging trends in computing platforms; service-mesh approaches, GPU-enabled machine learning solutions, edge and quantum computing, and more-and-more sophisticated cloud services are available for Big Data, IoT, AI and other categories of widespread applications. Software orchestration methods and tools play a crucial role to make complex functionalities available on a diverse set of platforms; there is a clear sign of convergence in this field. Some complex services can also be reused with little effort in multiple sectors as well, e.g. IoT back-ends for autonomous vehicles and cyber-medical systems. However, the IT experts still face several problems when they attempt to create, efficiently manage, scale out or orchestrate such set of building blocks in various, diverse IT environments in order to improve their non-functional features (including reduced vendor-locking or higher service reliability). 3rd party solutions from the cloud providers, and state-of-the-art open-source tools for on-premise/public/hybrid deployments might be taken into considerations leveraging on the approach of new generation of reference architectures (blueprints) to enable high-level convergence leading to the “cloud continuum”. The invited talk gives an overview of the latest results in this field covering the achievements of some EU H2020 projects (NEANIAS and EGI-ACE), national laboratories (e.g. ARNL and MILAB), and other strategic collaborations that address such challenging topics.
https://www.disa2023.org/program-2/
Reference architectures for cloud continuum: Convergence vs. Diversification
Access to quantum computing resources for ELKH Cloud users and introduction of the quantum reference architecture
A brief overview of the current state of quantum computing in international and national contexts, available quantum computing resources, typically used development environments and other domain-specific applications. Description of the 'Quantum' reference architecture: architecture, deployment options and example applications running on local and cloud-based simulators, as well as on remote quantum computing resources.
Introduction to Quantum Computing
An overview of the current ELKH Cloud of Quantum Computing resources
The Quantum Reference Architecture
New quantum computing services for the ELKH Cloud research community - introduction of the cloud quantum reference architecture
The 'Quantum' reference architecture has recently become available as part of the HUN-REN (formerly ELKH) Cloud services.
Introduction to quantum informatics
Quantum computing is gaining ground today. The aim is to familiarise students with quantum computing and its potential. Insights into the architectures that enable quantum computing, the basics of quantum theory, quantum cryptography, current quantum programming environments. Introduction to quantum informatics. Theoretical foundations of quantum mechanics, foundations of quantum cryptography, post-quantum cryptography. Main quantum computing hardware, architectures, quantum programming environments, programs.
Enabling quantum computation for EOSC users
Quantum computing is a new emerging paradigm allowing the solution of problems not resolvable with traditional computing approaches. With hardware resources becoming available, interested researches have the possibility to experiment with quantum resources at small scale. Providers like D-Wave (Leap) or AWS (Braket) offer cloud-like access to their quantum resources. Different types of quantum hardware is available: annealing systems, trapped-ion quantum computers (gate-based machines), or computers using superconducting qubits. Access to these resources is usually available by using some sort of API or SDK, depending on the provider. For example, D-Wave offers the Python-based Ocean SDK, while AWS has the Python-based Braket SDK. Beyond APIs and SDKs offering access to these services, additional libraries were created in order to support a given scientific domain over quantum resources. For example PennyLane is a Python library for differentiable programming of quantum computers. The presentation gives an overview of the above technologies, and shows a container-based reference architecture providing playground for quantum computing. The RA has JupyterLab deployed with a number of quickstart examples showing the usage and advantage of quantum computing,, along with all the necessary dependencies deployed. Using this RA, EOSC users can start experimenting with quantum resource within minutes.
Quantum computing for ELKH Cloud users
This presentation outlines quantum problems and showcases the avilable hardware. After introducing D-Wave's approach users can get an insight to programming SDKs and a Quictstart architecture for ELKH Users.