NWQWorkflow: The Northwest Quantum Workflow

TL;DR

NWQWorkflow is a comprehensive, integrated platform for quantum application development, testing, and execution on superconducting hardware, supporting collaborative research and hardware-software co-design.

Contribution

It introduces an end-to-end quantum workflow system integrating multiple tools and components, fostering open-source collaboration and advancing scalable quantum computing.

Findings

Successful integration of workflow components for quantum development

Support for hardware-software co-design and benchmarking

Open-source release plans to promote community engagement

Abstract

This whitepaper presents NWQWorkflow, an end-to-end workflow for quantum application development, compilation, error correction, benchmarking, numerical simulation, control, and execution on a prototype superconducting testbed. NWQWorkflow integrates NWQStudio (programming GUI environment), NWQASM (intermediate representation), QASMTrans (compiler), NWQEC (quantum error correction), QASMBench (benchmarking and characterization), NWQSim (HPC simulation), NWQLib (algorithm library), NWQData (data sets), NWQControl (quantum control), and NWQSC (superconducting testbed). The system enables closed-loop software-hardware co-design and reflects the past eight years of quantum computing research the author has led at PNNL (2018-2026). By releasing most software components as open source or planning their open-source availability, we aim to cultivate a collaborative quantum information science (QIS) ecosystem and support the transition toward a scalable quantum supercomputing era.