Deploying Containerized QuantEx Quantum Simulation Software on HPC Systems
David Brayford, John Brennan, Momme Allalen, Kenneth Hanley, Luigi, Iapichino, Lee ORiordan, Niall Moran
TL;DR
This paper discusses deploying containerized QuantEx quantum simulation software on HPC systems, addressing challenges in performance, customization, and reproducibility across different HPC environments.
Contribution
It provides an analysis of deployment issues and compares performance between containerized and bare-metal quantum simulation software on HPC systems.
Findings
Containerized software performs comparably to bare-metal.
Deployment challenges vary across HPC systems.
Containerization enhances reproducibility and portability.
Abstract
The simulation of quantum circuits using the tensor network method is very computationally demanding and requires significant High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to find an efficient contraction order and to perform the contraction of the large tensor networks. In addition, the researchers want a workflow that is easy to customize, reproduce and migrate to different HPC systems. In this paper, we discuss the issues associated with the deployment of the QuantEX quantum computing simulation software within containers on different HPC systems. Also, we compare the performance of the containerized software with the software running on bare metal.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems · Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture