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Parallelization of the QC-Lib Quantum Computer Simulator Library

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Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 3019))

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We report on work to parallelize QC-lib, a C++ library for the simulation of quantum computers at an abstract functional level. After a brief introduction to quantum computing, we give an outline of QC-lib, then describe its parallelization using MPI, and present performance measurements made on a Beowulf cluster. Using more processors allowed larger problems to be solved, and reasonable speedups were obtained for the Hadamard transform and Grover’s quantum search algorithm.

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  1. VCPC, European Centre for Parallel Computing at Vienna, Liechtensteinstraße 22, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Ian Glendinning & Bernhard Ömer

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  1. Ian Glendinning
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  1. Institute of Computational and Information Sciences, Czestochowa University of Technology,  

    Roman Wyrzykowski

  2. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, TN 37996-3450, Knoxville, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  3. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

    Marcin Paprzycki

  4. Informatics & Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    Jerzy Waśniewski

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Glendinning, I., Ömer, B. (2004). Parallelization of the QC-Lib Quantum Computer Simulator Library. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24669-5_60

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