Project Details
Description
Combinatorial optimization is the basis of many computational problems that are commonplace in our society,
e.g. in logistics, finance or pharmaceutical research. However, for many real-world applications, finding a
solution requires high-performance computer clusters that consume large amounts of energy and run for a
long time. This project aims to create a radically new platform of analogue hardware accelerators, so-called
Ising machines, that efficiently speed up these computationally difficult tasks in a way unlike any current digital
computer. These Ising machines are a newly emerging computational concept and have shown great promise.
Yet, their implementation is still highly challenging due to limited bandwidth, scalability and stability issues. A
breakthrough is needed to make them practical for real-world applications. Photonics presents an ideal way to
achieve this breakthrough due to its inherent parallelism and high speed. We aim to create accelerators for a
broad set of problems, that are orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient than digital computer and state-of-the-art Ising machines.
e.g. in logistics, finance or pharmaceutical research. However, for many real-world applications, finding a
solution requires high-performance computer clusters that consume large amounts of energy and run for a
long time. This project aims to create a radically new platform of analogue hardware accelerators, so-called
Ising machines, that efficiently speed up these computationally difficult tasks in a way unlike any current digital
computer. These Ising machines are a newly emerging computational concept and have shown great promise.
Yet, their implementation is still highly challenging due to limited bandwidth, scalability and stability issues. A
breakthrough is needed to make them practical for real-world applications. Photonics presents an ideal way to
achieve this breakthrough due to its inherent parallelism and high speed. We aim to create accelerators for a
broad set of problems, that are orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient than digital computer and state-of-the-art Ising machines.
Short title or EU acronym | PINCH |
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Acronym | FWOEOS20 |
Status | Active |
Effective start/end date | 1/01/22 → 31/12/25 |
Keywords
- Ising-machines
- combinatorial optimisation
Flemish discipline codes
- Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications
- Neuromorphic computing
- Nonlineair optics and spectroscopy
- Nonlineair sciences
- Quantum information, computation and communication
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