veqsim

Requirements

• GCC 8+
• Python 3.8+
• CMake 3.18+
• Recent nanobind and VEDA (installed via pip)

Building

NEC Vector Engine

cmake -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON \
      ..

NVIDIA A100

Make sure cuStateVec v1.4.0 or later is installed.

cmake -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=80 \
      -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON \
      ..

Apple Silicon

Make sure libomp is installed.

cmake -DOpenMP_ROOT=$(brew --prefix)/opt/libomp \
      ..

Intel CPU

cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpc \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-axCORE-AVX512" \
      ..

Citing

Please cite the following paper if you use veqsim:

• Keichi Takahashi, Toshio Mori, Hiroyuki Takizawa, "Prototype of a Batched Quantum Circuit Simulator for the Vector Engine," 4th International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software held in conjunction with SC23: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Nov. 2023. 10.1145/3624062.3624226