[hpc-announce] 2nd European Workshop on Quantum Computing for High-Performance Computing

[Tomás Fernández Pena]

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2nd European Workshop on Quantum Computing for High-Performance Computing

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Location: Pisa, Italy
Date: August 24th or 25th,  2026 (Final date to be announce depending on 
the schedule of the Euro-Par conference)
(Workshop in Euro-Par 2026. https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://2026.euro-par.org__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!YZjYYnfPBctbud_6P66Y9FVf9Sz4idX55Km44dPhLXGkpjL2kKAZFGNPSKwyV9w5N7IQbkQscqEtEBvb13UVIw$ )

Call for contributions.

     Quantum Computing offers a disruptive landscape to High-Performance 
computing. In the mid-term, the integration of the current classical 
High-Performance Computers with the quantum computing paradigm is still 
a research topic, including how to tackle hybrid classical-quantum 
applications. Nowadays trends point to integrating quantum computers as 
accelerators (coined as Quantum Processing Units - QPUs) as GPUs or 
FPGAs currently are. There are proposals to use adapted classical 
technologies such as OpenMP, OpenCL, or Cuda Quantum. However, there are 
still many problems to solve before this integration is effective and 
smooth. Additionally, the first experiences of parallel quantum 
computing have been executed during the last few years, and a modular 
architecture has been proposed by some researchers and vendors. At the 
application level, although not new because the first proposed 
algorithms are more than 20 years old, parallel quantum computing is a 
research topic that is gaining momentum. In the short term, it can 
include only QPUs with classical communications, but in the future could 
integrate quantum communications as well. A modification to MPI has been 
proposed to include new primitives for quantum operations. Last but not 
least, the Quantum Error Correction and logical Qubits are two main 
research topics for the next years, but how to integrate them into the 
full-stack is under research. This workshop intends to showcase research 
works related to topics linked with this classical-quantum integration 
objective, at the different levels of the hardware/software stack, from 
applications to hardware. 

     We invite to submit a original work to showcase contributions on 
topics related to the integration QC and HPC, not published previously, as:

         - Quantum-Classical Computing Software Interfaces.
         - Integration of Quantum Computing into HPC facilities.
         - Quantum Machine Learning.
         - QC Applications.
         - QC Benchmarking.
         - Parallel Quantum Computing.
         - Classical simulators of Parallel Quantum Computing.
         - Quantum Optimization.
         - Quantum Error Correction.
         - Hardware for Distributed Quantum Computing. Quantum Networks.


Important dates

1. Submission deadline: May 15th, 2026
2. Acceptance Notification: June 12th, 2026
3. Camera-ready of accepted papers due: July 10th, 2026

Submissions of contributions

     Authors must submit their work through EasyChair. Link for submission:

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     Select track: "2nd European Workshop on Quantum Computing for 
High-Performance Computing"

     Submissions must be in Springer LNCS format. 
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     Submissions should be in the form of full papers, with a minimum of 
10 pages and a maximum of 12, including any figures and references. 
Submissions with less than 10 pages could be accepted as short papers, 
but they will not be published in the proceedings.

Reviews and acceptance.

     Following the Euro-par methodology for paper selection, each 
contribution will be blind-reviewed rigorously by at least 3 independent 
reviews per submission, selected from the program committee. The final 
contributions will be chosen by their quality and must not be published 
elsewhere. The program committee could use automatic tools to detect 
plagiarism.
     For each accepted contribution, at least one author must register 
and present their work during the workshop. Only the accepted papers 
presented at the workshop will be published in the final proceedings. 
For the collection of camera-ready versions, the conference will use 
Springer’s Meteor system, where authors can submit their final sources 
and sign the copyright release form. Springer applies a series of 
quality checks, such as plagiarism checks using Turnitin, and authors 
must adhere to Springer’s publishing integrity policy.
     The collection of camera-ready versions of accepted papers (along 
with their  corresponding copyright release forms) will commence prior 
to the start of the conference. A final decision on whether a paper will 
be included in the proceedings will be made after the conclusion of the 
conference, based on the following criteria:
     i)    A valid registration is associated with the workshop paper;
     ii)   The paper was presented in person at the event;
     iii)  The paper complies with the full paper page limits (10–12 
pages); and
     iv)   The authors have submitted both their final source files and 
camera-ready version by the Camera-Ready Deadline (July 10th, 2026).

Chairs:

•    Diego Andrade (Universidade de A Coruña, UDC)
•    Andrés Gómez (Galician Supercomputing Center, CESGA)
•    Tomás Fernández Pena (Universidad de Santiago, USC)


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