SPAWAR 201 September 8th and 9th 2016:
The goal of this class is to look at Benchmarking a Quantum Computer with focus on NP-hard Optimization Problems, and software prototype tools ToQ and Qbsolv. Labs will be integrated into the software prototype tools module; attendees will have access to simulators.
The class will be held UCSD/Extension, 6256 Greenwich Dr, San Diego, Ca 92122, University City Center, room 206. Attendees will work on desktops provided by UCSD/Extension.
A light breakfast will be available at 8:30 AM in Room 315 and lunch will be provided at noon, instruction will begin at 9:00 AM ending at 5:00 PM each day.
INSTRUCTORS:
Dr. Catherine McGeoch received her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987. From 1988 to 2016 she was on the computer science faculty at Amherst College, most recently holding the Beitzel Professorship in Technology and Society. Her research interests focus on issues related to research in algorithm engineering and experimental analysis of algorithms, especially algorithms for NP-hard problems. She is past Editor in Chief of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics; and she co-founded the DIMACS Implementation Challenges and the ACM/SIAM ALENEX (Algorithm Engineering and Experiments) meetings. In July 2016 she joined D-Wave Systems Inc., where her title is Benchmarking Team Lead.
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 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/Motorola) and Storage (StorageTek/Sun). Currently working at D-Wave System on market benchmarking and Tool development.
