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At IEEE Quantum Week (QCE) 2025—the world’s largest conference on quantum information engineering—our advisor Rodney Van Meter delivered a keynote.
2025/09/10
At IEEE Quantum Week (QCE) 2025—the world’s largest conference on quantum information engineering—our advisor Rodney Van Meter served as a keynote speaker.
About IEEE Quantum Week (QCE) 2025
- Talk title: Quantum Multicomputers
- Speaker: Rodney Van Meter, Keio University
- Date & time: September 1, 2025, 5:00–6:30 PM (MDT)
- Venue: Albuquerque Convention Center, New Mexico, USA
- Abstract: Quantum multicomputers—modular systems composed of small quantum nodes connected through interconnect networks—were first proposed about twenty years ago as a path toward scalable quantum computation. Many core ideas were explored between 2005 and 2015, but work then slowed as researchers and developers focused on short‑term, single‑device NISQ systems. Commercial roadmaps now indicate that single‑device fault‑tolerant machines will reach practical limits within this decade. Over the past three years, research on multicomputers has accelerated again, with particular attention to mechanisms for achieving high‑fidelity inter‑node entanglement. Our own work began in the early 2000s from a top‑down design perspective, focusing on workloads, network topology, error correction, and distributed computation techniques, and today these ideas are being realized in the Q‑Fly experimental network. This talk surveys recent progress and discusses open challenges in scaling from single links to full networks.
Slides from the talk are available here:
QCE Keynote Modular Quantum Multicomputers 2509
For Q‑Fly, see: arXiv:2412.09299
This keynote reflects the global community’s recognition of Prof. Van Meter’s pioneering, long‑standing contributions to quantum multicomputers (distributed quantum computing) and quantum networking since the early days of the field.
Photo from the keynote.