MQSC at ISC 2026: Quantum–HPC integration through shared interfaces

MQSC joined the HPC community at ISC High Performance 2026, held at the Congress Center Hamburg on 22–26 June. Our contributions center around quantum–HPC integration through the Quantum Device Management Interface (QDMI).

Connecting devices and cloud services

A particular highlight was recent work with IQM Quantum Computers and Amazon Web Services. Both collaborations explore how a shared interface can connect quantum resources to the software around them.

The joint IQM case study describes a QDMI implementation for IQM quantum systems and its connection to Slurm-managed execution and Qiskit workflows. The work brings together contributors from MQSC, the Technical University of Munich, and IQM.

The Amazon Braket case study, by contributors from MQSC, TUM, and AWS, applies the same interface approach to a cloud service. It covers authentication, circuit submission, status checks, and result retrieval across Braket’s supported quantum resources and simulators.

Practical software for hybrid computing

These examples address complementary deployment settings: quantum systems connected to computing-center infrastructure and resources accessed through the cloud. A common device interface lets software reuse resource-management steps while retaining device-specific implementations underneath.

The corresponding papers and open-source implementations give developers the details needed to inspect the approach and try it in their own software stacks.

Further reading

• ISC 2026: official event announcement and dates
• Paper: Practical HPCQC Integration with QDMI — April 2026 version
• Paper: Standardizing Access to Heterogeneous Quantum Backends
• QDMI on IQM: source code
• Amazon Braket QDMI device: source code
• MQSC’s ISC 2026 post on LinkedIn
• IQM’s ISC speaker announcement on LinkedIn