QUANTUMvLAB @ Deucalion
Virtual Quantum Computing Laboratory
The year 2025 has been proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Year for Quantum Science and Technology.
In line with the need for greater dissemination and understanding of Quantum Computing, a quantum simulator was installed on the ARM partition of the DEUCALION supercomputer in the 1st quarter of 2025.
This simulator came about through the installation of the Qulacs tool on Deucalion, in close collaboration between CNCA, INESC TEC, Fujitsu, INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory) and IST-UL (Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon). Having identified the need to publicize and bring more users from the quantum computing community to this new simulator, in April 2025 FCT approved the creation of a 3rd virtual laboratory, which will join HPCvLAB and AIvLAB: the Quantum Computing Virtual Laboratory - QUANTUMvLAB.
How it works: Up to 1,024 ARM nodes can be requested for testing for a maximum period of 6 months, until December 31, 2025. Requests will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and will be subject to general limitations on the use of the Deucalion supercomputer. QUANTUMvLAB accesses will be managed by time intervals for the same subset of resources, i.e. each project will be able to use the system for a period of time, after which the subset of resources will be released to be used by another project. This type of access regime is managed by automatic queue management processes.
Objectives:
- Support users who want to test the quantum simulator in Deucalion;
- Support training in quantum computing;
- Create synergies between the national quantum computing community, CNCA and Deucalion, collaborating with other European teams and quantum computers that have recently come into operation (QMio at CESGA, Euro-QCS, MareNostrum-ONA, and others in the EuroHPC network).
Easy access to the quantum simulator:
The quantum simulator is installed on Fujitsu PRIMEHPC A64FX processors , in the ARM partition of Deucalion.
Additional technical details:
Quantum simulation user guide - Deucalion User Guide
Official Qulacs documentation: https://qulacs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
GitHub Qulacs repository: https://github.com/qulacs/qulacs