US 9,870,273 B2Granted

Methods and systems for quantum ready and quantum enabled computations

Assignee1Qb Information Technologies Inc.

InventorsMajid Dadashikelayeh, Arman Zaribafiyan

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Abstract

The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and media for allowing access to quantum ready and/or quantum enabled computers in a distributed computing environment (e.g., the cloud). Such methods and systems may provide optimization and computational services on the cloud. Methods and systems of the present disclosure may enable quantum computing to be relatively and readily scaled across various types of quantum computers and users at various locations, in some cases without the need for users to have a deep understanding of the resources, implementation or the knowledge that may be required for solving optimization problems using a quantum computer. Systems provided herein may include user interfaces that enable users to perform data analysis in a distributed computing environment while taking advantage of quantum technology in the backend.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A computing system for providing access to hybrid computing resources comprising a quantum computer and a classical computer, wherein the quantum computer and the classical computer are operatively coupled to a digital computer over a network, and wherein the digital computer comprises at least one computer processor and computer memory, the computing system comprising:

(a) a gateway configured to receive a request from the digital computer over the network, wherein the request comprises a computational task;
(b) an arbiter configured to (i) receive the request from the gateway, (ii) decompose the computational task into one or more quantum computational tasks and one or more classical computational tasks, and (iii) distribute the one or more quantum computational tasks to the quantum computer and the one or more classical computational tasks to the classical computer, wherein the quantum computer and the classical computer process the one or more quantum computational tasks and the one or more classical computational tasks, respectively, to yield solutions to the one or more quantum computational tasks and the one or more classical computational tasks;
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(c) memory that stores the solutions to the one or more quantum computational tasks and the one or more classical computational tasks from the quantum computer and the classical computer, respectively.

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A method for providing access to hybrid computing resources comprising a quantum computer and a classical computer, wherein the quantum computer and the classical computer are operatively coupled to a digital computer over a network and wherein the digital computer comprises at least one computer processor and computer memory, the method comprising:

(a) using a gateway to receive a request from the digital computer over the network, wherein the request comprises a computational task;
(b) decomposing the computational task into one or more quantum computational tasks and one or more classical computational tasks;
(c) distributing the one or more quantum computational tasks to the quantum computer and the one or more classical computational tasks to the classical computer, wherein the quantum computer and the classical computer process the one or more quantum computational tasks and the one or more classical computational tasks, respectively, to yield solutions to the one or more quantum computational tasks and the one or more classical computational tasks;
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(d) storing the solutions to the one or more quantum computational tasks and the one or more classical computational tasks from the quantum computer and the classical computer, respectively, in memory.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/486,960Filed 13 Apr 2017 · continuation in part
Priority: 13 Jun 2016
Published: US 2017/0357539 A114 Dec 2017
Granted: 16 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

G06F 9/5083
Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]: techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system
G06F 9/4806
Program initiating; Program switching, e.g. by interrupt: task transfer initiation or dispatching
G06F 9/5044
The resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals: considering hardware capabilities
G06F 9/5066
Partitioning or combining of resources: algorithms for mapping a plurality of inter-dependent sub-tasks onto a plurality of physical CPUs

Family

Application15/181,247Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Jun 2016
Application15/349,519Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 11 Nov 2016
Application62/436,093Us provisional application · filed 29 Dec 2016
US 9,537,953 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Jan 2017
US 2017/0357539 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Dec 2017
US 9,660,859 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application15/349,519Parent of this continuation
US 9,870,273 B2This patent

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