qHiPSTER: The Quantum High Performance Software Testing Environment
We present qHiPSTER, the Quantum High Performance Software Testing Environment. qHiPSTER is a distributed high performance implementation of a quantum simulator on a classical computer, that can simulate general single qubit gates and two qubit controlled gates. We perform a number of single and multi node optimizations, including vectorization, multi threading, cache blocking, as well as overlapping computation with communication. Using the TACC Stampede supercomputer, we simulate quantum circuits "quantum software" of up to 40 qubits. We carry out a detailed performance analysis to show that our simulator achieves both high performance and high hardware efficiency, limited only by the sustainable memory and network bandwidth of the machine.
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