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Minisymposium Presentation
Driving the Snakes Out of Quantum: HPC-Centric Hybrid Quantum Programming Models
Presenter
Dr Oliver Thomson Brown is a Chancellor's Fellow at EPCC, the University of Edinburgh's centre for supercomputing and data science. He leads EPCC's Quantum Group, which investigates applications of quantum computing, programming models for hybrid quantum HPC, and classical simulation of quantum computing.
Description
In this talk I present progress on programming models which treat quantum processing units (QPUs) as accelerator devices in the HPC setting. In particular, I present CQ, a C-like specification for interacting with a quantum computer or more precisely, with a classical co-processor connected directly to a quantum computer. The specification is designed with strictly and strongly typed languages in mind, and prioritises application developers in the HPC space. I will discuss some of the design decisions behind CQ, and report progress on reference implementations.