Communication coordination and node synchronization for enhanced quantum circuit operation employing a hybrid classical/quantum system
View Patent ↗Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products are provided for operating a quantum circuit on a set of qubits. According to an embodiment, a system can facilitate control of data transfer between two or more nodes. The system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a compilation component that compiles one or more communication paths between two or more nodes for transfer of yet-undetermined data along the one or more compiled communication paths. Alternatively and/or additionally, the computer executable components can comprise an interval boundary implementation component that can commonly set and trigger a successively repeating time point at two or more nodes to align performance at the two or more nodes of one or more quantum gate operations.
1. A system, comprising:
a memory that stores computer executable components; and
a processor that executes at least one of the computer executable components that:
compiles a quantum program for execution on a group of nodes comprising two or more control nodes and two or more action nodes, wherein the two or more control nodes comprises respective classical computing resources, and the two or more action nodes comprise respective quantum computing resources, and wherein the compiling comprises determining a time length for a repeating interval based on a maximum predicted transfer time for transferring data along communication paths between nodes of the group of nodes; and
commonly sets and triggers a successively repeating time point corresponding to an interval boundary of the time length of the repeating interval at the group of nodes to align execution at the group of nodes of quantum tasks of the quantum program distributed across the group of nodes.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the computer executable components further:
employs the successively repeating time point for execution of the one or more quantum tasks on two or more qubits.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the computer executable components further:
causes simultaneously-initiated quantum tasks on two or more qubits at two or more instances of the successively repeating time point.
4. The system of claim 1 ,
wherein iterations of the successively repeating time point bound successively repeating time intervals having a same length.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the compiling further comprises compiling one or more communication paths between the two or more nodes of the group of nodes for transfer of yet-undetermined data along the one or more compiled communication paths, and
wherein a length of a common time interval between successive ones of the successively repeating time point is at least as long as a maximum data propagation time along the one or more communication paths.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the computer executable components further:
executes at least one of the one or more quantum tasks in a manner non-aligned with the successively repeating time point.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the compiling further comprises compiling one or more communication paths between the two or more nodes of the group of nodes for transfer of yet-undetermined data along the one or more compiled communication paths, and
wherein a compiled transfer or post-receipt use of the data is aligned to one or more iterations of the successively repeating time point.
8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
compiling, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a quantum program for execution on a group of nodes comprising two or more control nodes and two or more action nodes, wherein the two or more control nodes comprises respective classical computing resources, and the two or more action nodes comprise respective quantum computing resources, and wherein the compiling comprises determining a time length for a repeating interval based on a maximum predicted transfer time for transferring data along communication paths between nodes of the group of nodes; and
commonly setting and triggering, by the system, a successively repeating time point corresponding to an interval boundary of the time length of the repeating interval at the group of nodes to align execution at the group of nodes of quantum tasks of the quantum program distributed across the group of nodes.
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:
employing, by the system, the successively repeating time point for execution of the one or more quantum tasks on two or more qubits.
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 ,
wherein iterations of the successively repeating time point bound successively repeating time intervals having a same length.
11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:
causing, by the system, simultaneously-initiated quantum tasks on two or more qubits at two or more instances of the successively repeating time point.
12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the compiling further comprises compiling one or more communication paths between the two or more nodes of the group of nodes for transfer of data along the one or more compiled communication paths, and
wherein a length of a common time interval between successive ones of the successively repeating time point is at least as long as a maximum data propagation time along the one or more communication paths.
13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:
executing, by the system, at least one of the one or more quantum tasks in a manner non-aligned with the successively repeating time point.
14. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the compiling further comprises compiling one or more communication paths between the two or more nodes of the group of nodes for transfer of data along the one or more compiled communication paths, and
wherein a compiled transfer or post-receipt use of the data is aligned to one or more iterations of the successively repeating time point.
15. A computer program product facilitating control of quantum tasks at two or more nodes of a system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor of the system to cause the processor to:
compile a quantum program for execution on a group of nodes comprising two or more control nodes and two or more action nodes, wherein the two or more control nodes comprises respective classical computing resources, and the two or more action nodes comprise respective quantum computing resources, and wherein the compiling comprises determining a time length for a repeating interval based on a maximum predicted transfer time for transferring data along communication paths between nodes of the group of nodes; and
commonly set and trigger a successively repeating time point corresponding to an interval boundary of the time length of the repeating interval at the group of nodes to align execution at the group of nodes of quantum tasks of the quantum program distributed across the group of nodes.
16. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the processor to:
employ the successively repeating time point for execution of the one or more quantum tasks on two or more qubits.
17. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the processor to:
cause simultaneously-initiated quantum tasks on two or more qubits at two or more instances of the successively repeating time point.
18. The computer program product of claim 15 ,
wherein iterations of the successively repeating time point bound successively repeating time intervals having a same length.
19. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the further comprises one or more communication paths between the two or more nodes of the group of nodes for transfer of data along the one or more compiled communication paths, and
wherein a length of a common time interval between successive ones of the successively repeating time point is at least as long as a maximum data propagation time along the one or more communication paths.
20. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the processor to:
execute, by the processor, at least one of the one or more quantum tasks in a manner non-aligned with the successively repeating time point.