Training Computer Scientists for the Challenges of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00885v1
• Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 10:14:50 GMT
• Title: Training Computer Scientists for the Challenges of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing
• Authors: Vincenzo De Maio, Meerzhan Kanatbekova, Felix Zilk, Nicolai Friis, Tobias Guggemos, Ivona Brandic
• Abstract summary: We propose a new lecture and exercise series on Hybrid Quantum-Classical Systems. Students learn how to decompose applications and implement computational tasks on a hybrid quantum-classical computational continuum. While learning the inherent concepts underlying quantum systems, students are to apply techniques and methods they are already familiar with.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: As we enter the post-Moore era, we experience the rise of various non-von-Neumann-architectures to address the increasing computational demand for modern applications, with quantum computing being among the most prominent and promising technologies. However, this development creates a gap in current computer science curricula since most quantum computing lectures are strongly physics-oriented and have little intersection with the remaining curriculum of computer science. This fact makes designing an appealing course very difficult, in particular for non-physicists. Furthermore, in the academic community, there is consensus that quantum computers are going to be used only for specific computational tasks (e.g., in computational science), where hybrid systems - combined classical and quantum computers - facilitate the execution of an application on both quantum and classical computing resources. A hybrid system thus executes only certain suitable parts of an application on the quantum machine, while other parts are executed on the classical components of the system. To fully exploit the capabilities of hybrid systems and to meet future requirements in this emerging field, we need to prepare a new generation of computer scientists with skills in both distributed computing and quantum computing. To bridge this existing gap in standard computer science curricula, we designed a new lecture and exercise series on Hybrid Quantum-Classical Systems, where students learn how to decompose applications and implement computational tasks on a hybrid quantum-classical computational continuum. While learning the inherent concepts underlying quantum systems, students are obligated to apply techniques and methods they are already familiar with, making the entrance to the field of quantum computing comprehensive yet appealing and accessible to students of computer science.

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