SC26: QRMI Tutorial, SFWM Panel, and Exhibitor Talk
Date:
I will co-present a tutorial, join a workshop panel, and give an exhibitor talk at SC26 in Chicago, November 15–17, 2026.
Tutorial: Workload-Manager-Agnostic QPU Integration with QRMI
The half-day tutorial takes place on Monday, November 16, 13:30–17:00 CST, in W184d at McCormick Place. I will present together with colleagues from IBM, Alice & Bob, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
See the QRMI SC26 tutorial website for tutorial materials.
HPC centers face two kinds of fragmentation: quantum vendors expose different APIs, while sites run different job schedulers. The Quantum Resource Management Interface (QRMI) addresses both through a common interface for heterogeneous QPU backends and integration with HPC workload managers.
The tutorial covers traditional batch schedulers, Kubernetes, and Flux. Attendees choose Slurm, PBS, IBM LSF, or Open Cluster Scheduler for the batch-scheduler exercises, and submit QRMI-managed jobs to quantum resources from providers such as IBM, Pasqal, and Alice & Bob.
SFWM workshop: panel and QRMI paper
On Sunday, November 15, I will join the panel at the 2nd International Workshop for Software Frameworks and Workload Management on Quantum-HPC Ecosystems (SFWM).
The panel, “Challenges in Q-HPC Software Frameworks & Workload Management”, is listed for 17:00–17:30 CST in W178a. Katherine Klymko (NERSC/LBNL) will moderate, with Daan Camps (Microsoft), Yoonho Park (IBM), Kristen Pudenz (Aom Computing), Pooja Rao (NVIDIA), and me (Pasqal) on the panel.
Yoonho Park from IBM will present our paper, “Examining QRMI as a Unified Interface for Quantum-HPC Integration”, at the workshop, at 10:30–10:45 CST in W178a. See the paper presentation listing and full workshop program.
Exhibitor Forum: Beyond QPU Access
On Tuesday, November 17, 15:30–16:00 CST, I will give “Beyond QPU Access: Lessons from Neutral-Atom Applications and HPC Deployments” in W192b, as part of the Quantum Computing and Beyond Moore session.
The talk draws on Pasqal’s neutral-atom applications and HPC deployments to discuss application-led co-design, classical validation and orchestration, and resource management for shared QPU access. It uses magnetic-material simulation and a differential-equation solver with logical qubits to explore how to evaluate QPUs through scientific validity, application-level performance, and operational usability.