{"title":"Inter-Temperature Bandwidth Reduction in Cryogenic QAOA Machines","authors":"Yosuke Ueno;Yuna Tomida;Teruo Tanimoto;Masamitsu Tanaka;Yutaka Tabuchi;Koji Inoue;Hiroshi Nakamura","doi":"10.1109/LCA.2023.3322700","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The bandwidth limit between cryogenic and room-temperature environments is a critical bottleneck in superconducting noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. This paper presents the first trial of algorithm-aware system-level optimization to solve this issue by targeting the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. Our counter-based cryogenic architecture using single-flux quantum logic shows exponential bandwidth reduction and decreases heat inflow and peripheral power consumption of inter-temperature cables, which contributes to the scalability of superconducting quantum computers.","PeriodicalId":51248,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Architecture Letters","volume":"23 1","pages":"6-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Computer Architecture Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10274135/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The bandwidth limit between cryogenic and room-temperature environments is a critical bottleneck in superconducting noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. This paper presents the first trial of algorithm-aware system-level optimization to solve this issue by targeting the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. Our counter-based cryogenic architecture using single-flux quantum logic shows exponential bandwidth reduction and decreases heat inflow and peripheral power consumption of inter-temperature cables, which contributes to the scalability of superconducting quantum computers.
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IEEE Computer Architecture Letters is a rigorously peer-reviewed forum for publishing early, high-impact results in the areas of uni- and multiprocessor computer systems, computer architecture, microarchitecture, workload characterization, performance evaluation and simulation techniques, and power-aware computing. Submissions are welcomed on any topic in computer architecture, especially but not limited to: microprocessor and multiprocessor systems, microarchitecture and ILP processors, workload characterization, performance evaluation and simulation techniques, compiler-hardware and operating system-hardware interactions, interconnect architectures, memory and cache systems, power and thermal issues at the architecture level, I/O architectures and techniques, independent validation of previously published results, analysis of unsuccessful techniques, domain-specific processor architectures (e.g., embedded, graphics, network, etc.), real-time and high-availability architectures, reconfigurable systems.