High performance quantum computing
Simon J. Devitt, William J. Munro, Kae Nemoto · Progress in Informatics · 2011
The architecture scalability afforded by recent proposals of a large-scale photonic-based quantum computer allows us to move on to a discussion of massively scaled Quantum Information Processing (QIP).In this paper, we consider the quantum analogue of High Performance Computing (HPC), where a dedicated server farm is utilized by many users to run algorithms and share quantum data.We introduce both a trusted mainframe model as a quantum extension of classical HPC and a model where quantum security is achieved during computation.The scaling structure of the optical architecture leads to an attractive future for server based QIP, where dedicated mainframes can be constructed and/or expanded to serve an increasingly hungry user base with the ideal resource for individual quantum information processing.