Platform Architecture for Tight Coupling of High-Performance Computing with Quantum Processors

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Main Authors: Caldwell, Shane A., Khazraee, Moein, Agostini, Elena, Lassiter, Tom, Simpson, Corey, Kahalon, Omri, Kanuri, Mrudula, Kim, Jin-Sung, Stanwyck, Sam, Li, Muyuan, Olle, Jan, Chamberland, Christopher, Howe, Ben, Schmitt, Bruno, Lietz, Justin G., McCaskey, Alex, Ye, Jun, Li, Ang, Magann, Alicia B., Ostrove, Corey I., Rudinger, Kenneth, Blume-Kohout, Robin, Young, Kevin, Miller, Nathan E., Xu, Yilun, Huang, Gang, Siddiqi, Irfan, Lange, John, Zimmer, Christopher, Humble, Travis
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author Caldwell, Shane A.
Khazraee, Moein
Agostini, Elena
Lassiter, Tom
Simpson, Corey
Kahalon, Omri
Kanuri, Mrudula
Kim, Jin-Sung
Stanwyck, Sam
Li, Muyuan
Olle, Jan
Chamberland, Christopher
Howe, Ben
Schmitt, Bruno
Lietz, Justin G.
McCaskey, Alex
Ye, Jun
Li, Ang
Magann, Alicia B.
Ostrove, Corey I.
Rudinger, Kenneth
Blume-Kohout, Robin
Young, Kevin
Miller, Nathan E.
Xu, Yilun
Huang, Gang
Siddiqi, Irfan
Lange, John
Zimmer, Christopher
Humble, Travis
author_facet Caldwell, Shane A.
Khazraee, Moein
Agostini, Elena
Lassiter, Tom
Simpson, Corey
Kahalon, Omri
Kanuri, Mrudula
Kim, Jin-Sung
Stanwyck, Sam
Li, Muyuan
Olle, Jan
Chamberland, Christopher
Howe, Ben
Schmitt, Bruno
Lietz, Justin G.
McCaskey, Alex
Ye, Jun
Li, Ang
Magann, Alicia B.
Ostrove, Corey I.
Rudinger, Kenneth
Blume-Kohout, Robin
Young, Kevin
Miller, Nathan E.
Xu, Yilun
Huang, Gang
Siddiqi, Irfan
Lange, John
Zimmer, Christopher
Humble, Travis
contents We propose an architecture, called NVQLink, for connecting high-performance computing (HPC) resources to the control system of a quantum processing unit (QPU) to accelerate workloads necessary to the operation of the QPU. We aim to support every physical modality of QPU and every type of QPU system controller (QSC). The HPC resource is optimized for real-time (latency-bounded) processing on tasks with latency tolerances of tens of microseconds. The network connecting the HPC and QSC is implemented on commercially available Ethernet and can be adopted relatively easily by QPU and QSC builders, and we report a round-trip latency measurement of 3.96 microseconds (max) with prospects of further optimization. We describe an extension to the CUDA-Q programming model and runtime architecture to support real-time callbacks and data marshaling between the HPC and QSC. By doing so, NVQLink extends heterogeneous, kernel-based programming to the QSC, allowing the programmer to address CPU, GPU, and FPGA subsystems in the QSC, all in the same C++ program, avoiding the use of a performance-limiting HTTP interface. We provide a pattern for QSC builders to integrate with this architecture by making use of multi-level intermediate representation dialects and progressive lowering to encapsulate QSC code.
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spellingShingle Platform Architecture for Tight Coupling of High-Performance Computing with Quantum Processors
Caldwell, Shane A.
Khazraee, Moein
Agostini, Elena
Lassiter, Tom
Simpson, Corey
Kahalon, Omri
Kanuri, Mrudula
Kim, Jin-Sung
Stanwyck, Sam
Li, Muyuan
Olle, Jan
Chamberland, Christopher
Howe, Ben
Schmitt, Bruno
Lietz, Justin G.
McCaskey, Alex
Ye, Jun
Li, Ang
Magann, Alicia B.
Ostrove, Corey I.
Rudinger, Kenneth
Blume-Kohout, Robin
Young, Kevin
Miller, Nathan E.
Xu, Yilun
Huang, Gang
Siddiqi, Irfan
Lange, John
Zimmer, Christopher
Humble, Travis
Quantum Physics
We propose an architecture, called NVQLink, for connecting high-performance computing (HPC) resources to the control system of a quantum processing unit (QPU) to accelerate workloads necessary to the operation of the QPU. We aim to support every physical modality of QPU and every type of QPU system controller (QSC). The HPC resource is optimized for real-time (latency-bounded) processing on tasks with latency tolerances of tens of microseconds. The network connecting the HPC and QSC is implemented on commercially available Ethernet and can be adopted relatively easily by QPU and QSC builders, and we report a round-trip latency measurement of 3.96 microseconds (max) with prospects of further optimization. We describe an extension to the CUDA-Q programming model and runtime architecture to support real-time callbacks and data marshaling between the HPC and QSC. By doing so, NVQLink extends heterogeneous, kernel-based programming to the QSC, allowing the programmer to address CPU, GPU, and FPGA subsystems in the QSC, all in the same C++ program, avoiding the use of a performance-limiting HTTP interface. We provide a pattern for QSC builders to integrate with this architecture by making use of multi-level intermediate representation dialects and progressive lowering to encapsulate QSC code.
title Platform Architecture for Tight Coupling of High-Performance Computing with Quantum Processors
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25213