A Grid Enabled Quantum Computer Simulator
Simona Caraiman, Alexandru Archip, Vasile Manta · 2009
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.