Q-WORKS 2026: Workshop on Quantum–HPC Workflows, Resources allocation, and Scheduling Co-located with Euro-par 2026 Pisa, Italy, August 24-25, 2026

Overview

As quantum computers are starting to be integrated into HPC facilities, challenges arise across the full stack to ensure effective HPC–quantum cooperation. These challenges range from integrating heterogeneous software stacks, to efficiently allocating and scheduling shared resources, and identifying suitable near-term applications that justify on-premise HPC integration as opposed to exclusive cloud-based access.Q‑WORKS aims to gather HPC and quantum experts to collect the latest advancements in the integration of quantum computers within HPC facilities. The workshop serves as a venue for multiple, sometimes non-intersecting communities — quantum software experts, systems software experts, researchers from hosting entities, representatives from European and nationally funded projects (e.g., EUROQHPC‑I, EuroHPC Centres of Excellence), and hardware vendors — to convene and exchange experiences on integrating and programming quantum computers in an HPC environment.

Topics of interest

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to:

• Efficient quantum resource allocation
• Workload characterization for HPC–quantum systems
• HPC–Quantum applications and use cases
• Quantum–classical software stacks
• Programming models for HPC–Quantum applications
• Benchmarking and performance evaluation
• Scheduling in hybrid quantum–classical environments
• Integration of heterogeneous software stacks
• Near-term quantum applications for HPC
• Co-design of hardware and software for hybrid systems
• Workflow languages for hybrid execution environments
• EU project activities (e.g., EUROQHPC‑I)

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers formatted using the Springer LNCS template.

Page limits

• Full papers: up to 12 pages (references included) — published in Springer proceedings if accepted
• Short papers: up to 10 pages (references included) — presented at workshop, not included in Springer proceedings

Submissions must represent original work not previously published or under review elsewhere.Reviews will be handled through the Euro‑Par 2026 EasyChair instance, with each submission receiving at least three reviews.

Submission link: EasyChair

Committees

Organization

• Paolo Viviani (paolo.viviani@linksfoundation.com) – LINKS Foundation
• Sara Marzella – CINECA
• Doriana Medić (doriana.medic@unito.it) – Università degli Studi di Torino
• Roberto Rocco (roberto.rocco@e4company.com) – E4 Computer Engineering

Program Committee

• Marco Aldinucci, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Rosa M. Badia, BSC
• Gianluca Bertaina, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
• Gabriella Bettonte, E4 Computer Engineering
• Mario Bifulco, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Álvaro Caride‑Tabarés Sánchez, IQM
• Marco Cipollini, Politecnico di Torino
• Iacopo Colonnelli, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Marco De Pascale, Munich Quantum Valley
• Emanuele Dri, LINKS Foundation
• Jorge Echavarria, Munich Quantum Valley
• Pascal Elahi, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
• Jonathan Frassineti, CINECA
• Edoardo Giusto, Università di Napoli Federico II
• Krzysztof Kurowski, PSNC
• Tommaso Macrì, QuEra
• Francesco Medina, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Bartolomeo Montrucchio, Politecnico di Torino
• Daniele Ottaviani, E4 Computer Engineering
• Vincenzo Pianese, Politecnico di Torino
• Martin Ruefenacht
• Rafael Sotelo, Universidad de Montevideo
• Olivier Terzo, LINKS Foundation
• Giovanna Turvani, Politecnico di Torino
• Ugo Varetto, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
• Chiara Vercellino, LINKS Foundation
• Giacomo Vitali, LINKS Foundation
• Deborah Volpe, Politecnico di Torino

Keynote

Miwako Tsuji (Ph.D.), RIKEN

Miwako Tsuji is a professor of Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and a unit leader at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science. She received master and PhD degrees from the Information Science and Technology department at Hokkaido University. From 2007 to 2013, she worked in multiple roles at the University of Hokkaido, University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, and Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. At RIKEN, she is a member of the Flagship 2020 project, which conducted the design and development of the supercomputer Fugaku. Her current research interests are programming and performance models for large-scale high-performance computing and quantum-HPC hybrid computing. She is a coauthor of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011. She is one of the Associate Directors of the Arm HPC User Group organization.

Publication

Q-WORKS 2026 proceedings will be published together with Euro-Par 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series.

Venue

The workshop will be held in Pisa, August 24-25, 2026.

The exact date and time will be communicated later.