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Design and Acceleration of a Quantum Genetic Algorithm Through the Matlab GPU Library

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The potential processing power of a quantum computer is quantum parallelism, but significant disadvantages of quantum simulators are processing speed and memory. In this work, we illustrate with a Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA) the advantages of using the software platform of Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) from NVIDIA, in special, the Matlab Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) library was used. The original software for Matlab named Quack!, which is a quantum computer simulator, was modified with the aim of speeding up a QGA. Experimental results that show advantages of using a QGA, as well as comparative experiments of the sequential implementation versus implementations that use the CUDA cores for different NVIDIA cards are presented.

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We thank to Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), to the Comisión de Fomento y Apoyo Académico del IPN (COFAA), and the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) for supporting our research activities.

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    Oscar Montiel, Ajelet Rivera & Roberto Sepúlveda

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Montiel, O., Rivera, A., Sepúlveda, R. (2015). Design and Acceleration of a Quantum Genetic Algorithm Through the Matlab GPU Library. In: Melin, P., Castillo, O., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Design of Intelligent Systems Based on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Nature-Inspired Optimization. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 601. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17747-2_26

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