Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform: Large-Scale Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits
Abstract
We report, in a sequence of notes, our work on the Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform(AC-QDP). AC-QDP provides a set of tools for aiding the development of both quantum computing algorithms and quantum processors, and is powered by a large-scale classical simulator deployed on Alibaba Cloud. In this note, we report the computational experiments demonstrating the classical simulation capability of AC-QDP. We use as a benchmark the random quantum circuits designed for Google's Bristlecone QPU {\cite{GRCS}}. We simulate Bristlecone-70 circuits with depth $1 + 32 + 1$ in $0.43$ second per amplitude, using $1449$ Alibaba Cloud Elastic Computing Service (ECS) instances, each with $88$ Intel Xeon(Skylake) Platinum 8163 vCPU cores @ 2.5 GHz and $160$ gigabytes of memory. By comparison, the previously best reported results for the same tasks are $104$ and $135$ seconds, using NASA's HPC Pleiades and Electra systems, respectively ({arXiv:1811.09599}). Furthermore, we report simulations of Bristlecone-70 with depth $1+36+1$ and depth $1+40+1$ in $5.6$ and $580.7$ seconds per amplitude, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first successful simulations of instances at these depths.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1907.11217
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1907.11217
- Bibcode:
- 2019arXiv190711217Z
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 1 figure. Comments are welcome. We renamed our platform to avoid confusion with other products with similar name