The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: Chen Zhang, Haojie Wang, Zixuan Ma, Lei Xie, Zeyu Song, and Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua University, China)
Abstract: Quantum circuit simulation is critical for verifying quantum computers. Given exponential complexity in the simulation, existing simulators use different architectures to accelerate the simulation. However, due to the variety of both simulation methods and modern architectures, it is challenging to design a high-performance yet portable simulator.
In this work, we propose UniQ, a unified programming model for multiple simulation methods on various hardware architectures. We provide a unified application abstraction to describe different applications, and a unified hierarchical hardware abstraction upon different hardware.
Based on these abstractions, UniQ can perform various circuit transformations without being aware of either concrete application or architecture detail, and generate high-performance execution schedules on different platforms without much human effort. Evaluations on CPU, GPU, and Sunway platforms show that sys can accelerate quantum circuit simulation by up to 28.59× (4.47× on average) over state-of-the-art frameworks, and successfully scale to 399,360 cores on 1,024 nodes.
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