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DOE Accelerated Research in Quantum Computing
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: February 20, 2024 at 10 AM
OSP Deadline, if nominated: March 6, 2024. Departments or areas may require additional time for proposal review and submission. Please discuss a timeline with your grants administrator.
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline, if nominated: March 13, 2024
Sponsor Application Submission Deadline, if encouraged: May 8, 2024
Award Amount: $250,000 to $3,000,000 per year for 5 years.
The DOE Office of Science (SC) program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) announced its interest in receiving applications that advance the field of quantum computing by developing enabling end-to-end software infrastructures. This announcement solicits applications from large cross-disciplinary teams that will advance computer science toward a software stack that is ready to leverage multiple quantum technologies, or will develop mathematical foundations, algorithms, and software tools toward quantum utility demonstration for applications within the DOE mission.
This announcement targets several priority research directions: end-to-end software toolchains to program and control quantum systems and networks at scale, quantum algorithms delivering quantum advantage, and resilience through error detection, prevention, protection, mitigation, and correction. These are key components for the development of a software ecosystem that must be ready to account for modularity and interoperability on one side and for specialization and performance on another. Research proposed in response to this announcement must primarily focus on addressing one of the two topics described below:
- Addresses practical and fundamental bottlenecks that hinder modularity and potential synergy among selected hardware technologies;
- Pursues general approaches to integration that may remain relevant for future technologies;
- Devises ways to embed quantum processors in parallel and distributed computing models; and
- Integrates error management across the software stack.
- Choose generalizable application-inspired target problems;
- Develop algorithms for optimized math kernels and math primitives for selected current (NISQ) and future quantum systems that significantly advance state-of-the-art performance for the selected target problems;
- Adapt, if needed, any level of the software stack for the specific target problems; and
- Estimate quantum resources by employing important complementary metrics, including energy-to-solution.
This is a limited submission opportunity and Harvard, as a single institution, is limited to submitting up to three Pre-Applications (required), and if encouraged, up to three full proposals. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will conduct an internal competition to select Harvard’s nominees. To be considered for a Harvard nomination, potential applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal by 10:00 AM on February 20, 2024, via the link above. Please note that there is no limitation to Harvard appearing in an application when not the lead.
Please see the full Funding Opportunity Announcement here: https://science.osti.gov/grants/FOAs/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2024/DE-FOA-0003265.pdf.
Questions from FAS or SEAS faculty about this opportunity may be directed to research_development@fas.harvard.edu.
Requests for support related to the application portal may be directed to vpr@harvard.edu.