Convergence Accelerator Phase I: Project Scoping Workshop (PSW) on Quantum Interconnects (QuIC)

融合加速器第一阶段：量子互连 (QuIC) 项目范围界定研讨会 (PSW)

• 批准号: 1946564
• 负责人: Marko Loncar
• 金额: $ 8.52万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946564&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Convergence; Accelerator; Phase; Project; Scoping

This workshop will be organized in Fall 2019 and will bring together key stakeholders from academia and industry. The participants will discuss current challenges in Quantum Interconnects (QuIC), opportunities to overcome those challenges, and will map out a path forward to enable near-term progress. The specific aim of the workshop is to identify realistic deliverables in the area of Quantum Interconnects, including: i) Prototypes that could be developed in the next 2-5 years, and ii) Testbeds needed to evaluate them in the following 5 years.We propose to organize the workshop that will bring together key stakeholders from academia, industry and government with the charge to answer the following questions: What is the societal impact offered by QuIC technology? Who will benefit from our work? What are the most promising QuIC platforms and how soon can they to be translated from lab to "real world" environments? What are the main experimental and theoretical challenges of these QuIC platforms, and how we can address them? Do they pose interesting scientific or engineering questions that require convergent research and partnership between academia, industry and government? Are there needs for platform specific or generalized algorithm and software development? What are the needs of QuIC community in terms of sustained financial support, additional technical expertise required, workforce/ student training, etc? To answer these questions and evaluate the potential of QuIC, the workshop will draw participation from different scientific and engineering disciplines including material scientists, physicists, electronic and photonic circuit designers, control and information theory experts, computer scientists, software engineers, and so on.The workshop will involve key players from both industry and academia involved in the development of classical interconnects (largely optical) crucial to the development high performance computing (HPC) systems and modern data centers. Importantly, this project advances the objectives of two of Ten Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments: "Quantum Leap" (QL) and "Growing Convergent Research" (GCR). This activity also advances objectives of the National Quantum Initiative (NQI), a coordinated multiagency program to support research and training in Quantum Information Science (QIS). The outcome of the workshop will be a white paper co-authored by all workshop participants and made available to the public. The white paper will outline the Workshop's position regarding community priorities relative to QuIC.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该研讨会将于2019年秋季组织，并将汇集来自学术界和行业的主要利益相关者。参与者将讨论量子互连（QUIC）的当前挑战，克服这些挑战的机会，并将绘制出迈向近期进展的途径。研讨会的具体目的是确定量子互连领域的现实可交付成果，包括：i）可以在接下来的2 - 5年内开发的原型，以及II）II）在接下来的5年中进行评估的测试床。我们建议组织工作室，以征服研究工作室，从而使政府汇总出Qeal and secial cormity：secial cormis and social cormis and social ye Corece ye societ ye societ ye societ？谁会从我们的工作中受益？什么是最有希望的Quic平台？可以将它们从实验室转换为“现实世界”环境的多久？这些Quic平台的主要实验和理论挑战是什么？我们如何解决它们？他们是否提出了有趣的科学或工程问题，需要学术界，工业和政府之间的融合研究和伙伴关系？平台特定或广义算法和软件开发是否需要？ Quic社区在持续的财务支持，需要的其他技术专长，劳动力/学生培训等方面有什么需求？ To answer these questions and evaluate the potential of QuIC, the workshop will draw participation from different scientific and engineering disciplines including material scientists, physicists, electronic and photonic circuit designers, control and information theory experts, computer scientists, software engineers, and so on.The workshop will involve key players from both industry and academia involved in the development of classical interconnects (largely optical) crucial to the development high performance computing (HPC)系统和现代数据中心。重要的是，该项目推动了未来NSF投资的十个大想法中的两个目标的目标：“量子Leap”（QL）和“不断增长的研究研究”（GCR）。这项活动还提高了国家量子倡议（NQI）的目标，该计划是一项协调的多机构计划，以支持量子信息科学研究和培训。研讨会的结果将是所有研讨会参与者合着的白皮书，并向公众提供。白皮书将概述研讨会在社区优先事项相对于QUIC方面的立场。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持的。