The Wigner Scientific Computing Laboratory was successfully awarded the NKFIH 2020-2.1.1-ED-2021-00179 "Publicly funded grants under the KFItv. 13.§ (3) - 2021", "Massive parallel classical and quantum simulations in high-energy physics" for the period from 01.12.2021 to 30.11.2022.

During this project, we have applied the most advanced theoretical physical and mathematical models to comprehend the structure of the Universe and the elementary quantum processes. To do this, we have developed new numerical and quantum computing techniques. In the project, we exploited classical HPC capabilities to develop massively parallelized numerical methods and prepared for future quantum computing applications using state-of-the-art quantum computer simulators currently available. These researches have been carried out at the Wigner Scientific Computing Laboratory (WSCLAB). The numerical methods developed have applications in everyday life, for example: in cancer research, in everyday applications of particle accelerators, in protein modeling, in quantum chemistry, and in the search for possible mutations in Sars-Covid-2.

The project has involved two postdoctoral students, contributed to the research of six Ph.D. students, and facilitated the research of six MSc students, who were able to get access to HPC computing environments, and massively parallelized computing on GPU and FPGA accelerators via this project. They have prepared to apply quantum computing methods thanks to it.

We have organised international scientific conferences and participated in events where we presented our results.

We have also given scientific outreach lectures on the results, e.g. in the Atoms to Stars lecture series. We have provided further training in classical and quantum computer programming.

The results of the project have been published in 17 scientific papers. The majority of these are Q1 scientific journals, but also include scientific papers in Hungarian.