Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Quantum computing (QC) holds the potential to solve classically intractable problems.Although there has been significant progress towards the availability of quantum hardware, a software infrastructure to integrate them is still missing.We present Q-AIM (Quantum Access Infrastructure Management) to fill this gap.Q-AIM is a software framework unifying the access and management of quantum hardware in a vendor-independent and opensource fashion.Utilizing a dockerized micro-service architecture, we show Q-AIM's lightweight, portable, and customizable nature, capable of running on different hosting paradigms, ranging from small personal computing devices to cloud servers and dedicated server infrastructure.Q-AIM exposes a single entry point into the host's infrastructure, providing secure and easy interaction with quantum computers at different levels of abstraction.With a minimal memory footprint, the container is optimized for deployment on even the smallest server instances, reducing costs and instantiation overhead while ensuring seamless scalability to accommodate increasing demands.Q-AIM intends to equip research groups and facilities with purchasing and hosting their own quantum hardware with a tool simplifying the process from procurement to operation and removing non-research-related technical redundancies.
Source: Computer Science Research Notes
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414847256