Himanshu Thapliyal
Travis Humble
Drs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers in order to participate in their upcoming Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing co-located with the 9th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC 2018) taking place October 21-24 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
IGSC 2018 “provides a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference consists of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and special sessions on these topics.”
The submission deadline is August 15th and the full call can be found below:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing
Oct 22, 2018
In conjunction with the
THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING CONFERENCE
October 21-24, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA, US
Authors are invited to submit papers for a workshop on “Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing” in conjunction with the 9TH INTERNATIONAL GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING CONFERENCE, Oct 21-24, 2018. Workshop paperswill provide a comprehensive review on fundamentals as well as the current state of the art in research and technology.
Quantum computing has been hailed as a disruptive technology mainly due to algorithmic complexity arguments that predict computational speedups for future quantum computing systems are possible. Yet there is little known about the relative efficiency and sustainability of those future systems and programs. This is due in part to the early and emerging insights of how quantum computing systems should operate as well as the quickly growing set of proposed application areas. While time-to-solution will play an important role in justifying the future development of quantum computers, prominent concerns for sustainable computing stakeholders include additional practical considerations such as energy and power consumption, size and maintenance, complexity and sensitivity, among other factors.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore how quantum computing may impact the sustainability of future computing platforms. This includes the potential impact on the time, energy, and complexity of operating future computers that comes broadly form quantum computing hardware, software, and algorithms. We further focus on the transformative research that will be necessary to guide quantum computing performance toward practical and sustainable operations.
Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to the following:
- Energy and power consumption estimates for quantum computing systems and applications
- Hardware and software codesign that prioritizes sustainable and efficient platform operation
- Algorithmic and computational benchmarks for quantifying quantum computing performance
- Modeling and simulation of quantum computer performance including hybrid computations
- Resource efficient methods for the control and execution of quantum programs
- Progress in quantum architectures, circuits, devices, design automation and programming languages
Submission Procedure:
Authors are invited to submit 2-page extended abstract as well as original, unpublished manuscripts of maximum 6-page length at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qcsc2018. Previously published papers or papers under review for other conferences/journals should not be submitted for consideration. Please use IEEE conference-style template: https://www.igscc.org/paper-submission. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be published in IEEE Xplore as part of the IGSC proceedings. A selected set of papers from the workshop will be invited for submission to a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal based on reviewer’s feedback and quality of conference presentation.
Schedule:
- Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018
- Author Notification: August 31, 2018
- Submission of Final Version: September 7, 2018
Workshop Organizers:
Travis S. Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA: Email: humblets@ornl.gov
Himanshu Thapliyal, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA: Email: hthapliyal@uky.edu
Both Dr. Humble and Dr. Thapliyal were participants in the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) recent visioning workshop on Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role. A workshop report is in progress and will be released soon. We will announce the release of the report on the blog, so follow us for updates on that report and more content relevant to the computing community!
