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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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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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