Microsoft and ETH Zurich blueprint: quantum computers as cloud-attached accelerators
thoefler · x · 2026-11-15
At the ROSS 2026 workshop at SC26, Torsten Hoefler (Microsoft and ETH Zurich) and Matthias Troyer presented a blueprint for quantum computer architecture at scale. Key principles: treat a quantum computer as a cloud-attached heterogeneous accelerator whose scheduling, orchestration, and resource management can largely reuse classical HPC and cloud principles, and preserve familiar abstraction boundaries — compilers target a portable quantum ISA while lower layers translate logical operations into machine-specific micro-operations, controls, measurements, and decoding.
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