CAREER: Enabling Scalable and Resilient Quantum Computer Architectures through Synergistic Hardware-Software Co-Design

职业：通过协同硬件软件协同设计实现可扩展且有弹性的量子计算机架构

• 批准号: 2340267
• 负责人: Swamit Tannu
• 金额: $ 70.94万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-10-01 至 2029-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2340267&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Enabling; Scalable; Resilient; Quantum

Abstract Quantum computers can help solve some of the most complex problems in physics, chemistry, material design, optimization, and machine learning. A worldwide effort is underway to create larger, more reliable quantum computers, enhancing their ability to execute complex quantum algorithms. Despite this progress, practical quantum computing faces significant challenges, including the susceptibility of quantum bit (qubit) devices to environmental noise, producing inaccurate results. Furthermore, the limited availability of algorithms that can leverage quantum computers in the near term is a significant hurdle, as existing algorithms require millions of noise-free operations beyond the current quantum hardware capabilities. The gap between the quantum hardware necessary for solving real-world problems and today's quantum computing technology is significant. This award seeks to bridge this gap by focusing on scalable and resilient quantum computer architectures through an integrated approach to hardware and software design and developing software tools to help users leverage existing and future quantum hardware. Moreover, this award will create a broadly accessible quantum computing curriculum and support outreach activities to engage and educate undergraduates in quantum information sciences. This project focuses on two research thrusts. The first thrust concentrates on co-designing Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and Runtime to enable efficient and resilient architectures and introduce new hardware-software primitives to help scale distributed qubit control. On the ISA front, the project will investigate how flexible instruction sets offered by most quantum hardware platforms, which allow new gates by calibrating pulses, can be leveraged without overly increasing the calibration complexity. For enabling a large number of operations on a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer (FTQC), required by most real-world applications, this project will develop a runtime capable of detecting noise amplification events due to unstable qubit devices and mitigating them by moving data and learning optimal noise mitigation policies. The second thrust of this project will focus on developing software tools to facilitate efficient empirical design and evaluation of quantum algorithms. To that end, the project will develop tools to design, tune, and debug hybrid classical-quantum workflows. Moreover, the project will study the efficacy of partially fault-tolerant quantum computer architectures, where only a subset of operations are protected against errors, and investigate if co-designing ISA, runtime, error correction, and applications can push partial FTQC toward practical utility.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

抽象量子计算机可以帮助解决物理，化学，材料设计，优化和机器学习中一些最复杂的问题。正在努力创建更大，更可靠的量子计算机，从而增强其执行复杂量子算法的能力。尽管取得了这种进步，但实用的量子计算仍面临重大挑战，包括量子位（Qubit）设备对环境噪声的敏感性，从而产生不准确的结果。此外，可以在短期内利用量子计算机的算法的有限可用性是一个巨大的障碍，因为现有算法需要以外的数百万无噪声操作，而不是当前的量子硬件功能。解决现实世界问题所需的量子硬件与当今的量子计算技术之间的差距很大。该奖项通过通过集成的硬件和软件设计和开发软件工具来帮助用户利用现有和未来的量子硬件来通过集成的方法和开发软件工具来通过集成的方法来弥合差距来弥合这一差距。此外，该奖项将创建一项广泛可访问的量子计算课程，并支持宣传活动，以参与和教育量子信息科学的本科生。 该项目着重于两个研究推力。第一个推力集中在共同设计指令集体系结构（ISA）和运行时，以实现高效且有弹性的架构，并引入新的硬件软件启动器，以帮助扩展分布式Qubit控制。在ISA方面，该项目将调查大多数量子硬件平台提供的灵活指令集，这些量子硬件平台如何通过校准脉冲来允许新的大门，而不会过分提高校准复杂性。为了在大多数现实世界应用程序所要求的易于耐故障量子计算机（FTQC）上实现大量操作，该项目将开发一个运行时，能够由于不稳定的Qubit设备而检测到噪声扩增事件，并通过移动数据和学习最佳噪音降低噪声策略来减轻它们。该项目的第二个主旨将着重于开发软件工具，以促进量子算法的有效经验设计和评估。为此，该项目将开发设计，调整和调试混合经典量词工作流的工具。此外，该项目将研究部分容忍量子计算机体系结构的功效，其中只能保护一部分操作免受错误的影响，并调查是否共同设计ISA，运行时，错误校正和应用程序可以将部分FTQC推向实际实用性。这些奖项通过评估NSF的法定任务及其依据，这是NSF的范围的范围，其范围是依据的范围。 标准。