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Quantum Computing in the Cloud: Analyzing job and machine characteristics


Abstract:

As the popularity of quantum computing continues to grow, quantum machine access over the cloud is critical to both academic and industry researchers across the globe. An...Show More

Abstract:

As the popularity of quantum computing continues to grow, quantum machine access over the cloud is critical to both academic and industry researchers across the globe. And as cloud quantum computing demands increase exponentially, the analysis of resource consumption and execution characteristics are key to efficient management of jobs and resources at both the vendor-end as well as the client-end. While the analysis of resource consumption and management are popular in the classical HPC domain, it is severely lacking for more nascent technology like quantum computing. This paper is a first-of-its-kind academic study, analyzing various trends in job execution and resources consumption / utilization on quantum cloud systems. We focus on IBM Quantum systems and analyze characteristics over a two year period, encompassing over 6000 jobs which contain over 600,000 quantum circuit executions and correspond to almost 10 billion “shots” or trials over 20+ quantum machines. Specifically, we analyze trends focused on, but not limited to, execution times on quantum machines, queuing/waiting times in the cloud, circuit compilation times, machine utilization, as well as the impact of job and machine characteristics on all of these trends. Our analysis identifies several similarities and differences with classical HPC cloud systems. Based on our insights, we make recommendations and contributions to improve the management of resources and jobs on future quantum cloud systems.
Date of Conference: 07-09 November 2021
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 January 2022
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Conference Location: Storrs, CT, USA

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I. Introduction

Quantum computing is a revolutionary computational model that leverages quantum mechanical phenomena for solving intractable problems. Quantum computers (QCs) evaluate quantum circuits or programs in a manner similar to a classical computer, but quantum information's ability to leverage superposition, interference, and entanglement gives QCs significant advantages in cryptography [38], chemistry [27], optimization [30], and machine learning [17].

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