Simulators and HPC’s Role in the NISQ Era

Now that we know how to make quantum and classical computing resources available and have reviewed how to pose our problems in both domains, we should evaluate the available mechanisms and strategies for exploiting those resources efficiently. By that, we mean cost and time efficiency, given that those axes will also need to be considered when it comes to including these techniques in our company’s daily processes.

Nowadays, the classical resources in most companies comprise a mixture of on-premises and cloud-enabled resources. This is the common case for most experimental projects aiming to improve operational processes using analytics. Ephemeral computing resources may have different needs, depending on the project or the nature of the technique we envision using. That is why the cloud-native pay-per-use model has become a good option for most companies.

Depending on the tasks, graphical processing units (GPUs) for machine...