QFaaS is a Quantum Function-as-a-Service framework that leverages the advantages of the serverless computing model and state-of-the-art software engineering techniques to advance practical quantum computing in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. Our framework provides essential elements of a serverless quantum system to streamline service-oriented quantum application development in cloud environments, such as combining hybrid quantum-classical computation, automating the backend selection, and adapting Quantum DevOps workflow. QFaaS offers the first full-stack and unified quantum serverless platform by integrating multiple well-known quantum software development kits, quantum simulators, and quantum cloud providers (IBM Quantum and Amazon Braket).
Note
We are working on a book chapter and documentation for developing and deploying quantum service-oriented applications using the QFaaS framework, tentatively releasing in May-June 2024. Please stay tuned for further updates.
- Support developing quantum functions using 4 popular quantum SDKs, including Qiskit, Q#, Cirq, and Braket.
- Built-in APIs with API gateway to manage system components, quantum functions, jobs, quantum backend and providers.
- Simplify quantum programming and enable hybrid quantum-classical function development with a built-in Python library.
- Execute quantum functions on both internal quantum simulators and external quantum computers/simulators from IBM Quantum and Strangeworks Quantum Computing platforms (Amazon Braket).
The architecture design of QFaaS comprises six main components: the QFaaS APIs and API Gateway, the Application Deployment Layer, the Classical Cloud Layer, the Quantum Cloud Layer, the Monitoring Layer, and the User Interface.
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.
[1] Hoa T. Nguyen, Muhammad Usman, and Rajkumar Buyya, “QFaaS: A Serverless Function-as-a-Service framework for Quantum computing,” Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 154. Elsevier BV, pp. 281–300, May 2024. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2024.01.018. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.01.018
BibTeX entry
@article{nguyen2024qfaas,
title = {QFaaS: A Serverless Function-as-a-Service framework for Quantum computing},
author = {Nguyen, Hoa T. and Usman, Muhammad and Buyya, Rajkumar},
year = {2024},
month = {May},
journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
volume = {154},
pages = {281–300},
doi = {10.1016/j.future.2024.01.018},
issn = {0167-739X},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.01.018}
}