This lecture/lab format will explore benchmarking a quantum system and provide training with labs on prototype tools for the D-Wave system. Attendees need to have attended the December, March or June D-Wave Programming class.
- Benchmarking A Quantum Annealing System and Time To Target
- Software Tools Review
- Prototype Tool ToQ
- Prototype Tool Qbsolv
- LANL Prototype Tools (open mic)
The class will be held at the LANL Research Park room 203B, August 8th and 9th; a light breakfast will be offered at 8:30, class will begin at 9:00 AM ending at 5:00 PM with an hour lunch break each day.
Participants are asked to bring their own devices (devices need to be able to run a certified RDP client)
INSTRUCTORS:
Dr. Jamie King is a Senior Algorithms Researcher at D-Wave Systems where he works as part of the Benchmarking team evaluating D-Wave's quantum annealing processors. Jamie was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, and studied computer science at Waterloo (B.Sc.), UBC (M.Sc.), and McGill University (Ph.D.). His dissertation focused on computational geometry and probabilistic analysis of random data structures. During his postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, he studied energy landscapes of discrete optimization problems.
Dr. Edward (Denny) Dahl received his PhD in physics from Stanford University and has worked in the field of high performance computing for three decades. He has held positions at Thinking Machines Corporation, Teradata and LLNL, and has provided consulting services to eBay, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. Denny joined D-Wave Systems in 2012. He will be discussing general principles of quantum computing, focusing on the D-Wave hardware and software environments and cover various programming options in detail
Mark Furtney earned an MS in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Computer Science from UVa. Before joining D-Wave Systems in 2013, Mark worked for Cray Research in a variety of software technical and management positions, including leading the Cray Parallel Processing efforts. Mark will be discussing a new language (ToQ), which can be used to exploit the problem-solving capabilities of the D-Wave System while shielding the quantum details of the machine from the user.
Michael (Mike) Booth has led and participated in teams in High Performance Computing (Cray Research/SGI), Embedded Computing (Freescale/Moterola) and Storage (Stpragr Teck/Sun). Currently he is working at D-Wave Systems on market benchmarking and Tool development.
