Speaker
Dr
Fred Chong
(University of Chicago)
Description
In this talk, I will discuss our experiences with developing an open-source
tool chain for large-scale quantum computing, and our plans for
re-targeting these tools for near-term, small-scale physical prototypes.
The Scaffold tools are an extensive set of compilation and resource
estimation tools for large-scale quantum computing. Scaffold leverages
the LLVM compiler framework, as well as parallel mapping and quantum
rotation generation tools. Scaffold was designed for scalability, targeting
quantum machines with up to millions of quantum bits.
Scaffold has allowed us to explore a range of architectural and compiler
issues and has contributed to many other research projects across
the world. Our future efforts, however, will focus on specializing Scaffold
to target smaller-scale machines. Specifically, we plan to expose more
machine features and use deep optimization to help close the gap between
practical algorithms and prototype machines.