WORKSHOP: Post Moore’s Era Supercomputing
AUTHORS: Martin Suchara, Yuri Alexeev, Frederic Chong, Hal Finkel, Henry Hoffmann, Jeffrey Larson, James Osborn, Graeme Smith
Time: Sunday, November 11th, 10:30am – 10:50am
Location: D161
Description: We describe how classical supercomputing can aid unreliable quantum processors of intermediate size to solve large problem instances reliably. We advocate using a hybrid quantum-classical architecture where larger quantum circuits are broken into smaller sub-circuits that are evaluated separately, either using a quantum processor or a quantum simulator running on a classical supercomputer. Circuit compilation techniques that determine which qubits are simulated classically will greatly impact the system performance as well as provide a tradeoff between circuit reliability and runtime.