A Grid Enabled Quantum Computer Simulator

Author

Caraiman, Simona ; Archip, Alexandru ; Manta, Vasile

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Gh. Asachi Tech. Univ., Iasi, Romania

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

189

Lastpage

196

Abstract

Simulation of quantum computers using classical computers is a computationally hard problem, requiring a huge amount of operations and storage. Grid systems are a good choice for simulating quantum algorithms, since they provide access to high-performance computer clusters. In this paper we present the design of a message passing parallel version of the quantum computer simulator, QCL, deployed as a grid service. After describing the architecture of our grid service and the parallelization strategy for the general single qubit operator, we present the performance measurements for some test cases, showing the speedups obtained.

Keywords

grid computing; message passing; quantum computing; QCL; grid enabled quantum computer simulator; grid service; grid systems; high performance computer clusters; message passing; parallelization strategy; quantum algorithms; quantum computer simulation; single qubit operator; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Grid computing; Measurement; Message passing; Quantum cascade lasers; Quantum computing; MPI; grid computing; quantum computer simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), 2009 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Timisoara

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5910-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5911-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYNASC.2009.57

Filename

5460850