Classical computers excel at solving most day-to-day problems swiftly and accurately, yet they face limitations when handling complex problems that require extensive resources or time. This landscape shifted when scientists came across the interesting and powerful quantum phenomenon and discovered that computation could be done with it.

However, with quantum hardware still in its infancy, simulation of quantum algorithms on classical computers became an important and useful endeavor. Intel Quantum Simulator (IQS) serves as a quantum circuits simulator optimized to harness the full potential of multi-core and multi-node architectures.

This paper delves into the journey to run the IQS benchmark using the features and tools provided by Intel oneAPI. We built the IQS Library using data parallel C++ compiler (DPC++ compiler) provided by Intel oneAPI and ran the benchmark. Here, we present the study of one-qubit gate benchmark on HPC systems for analyzing the strong and the weak scaling of the simulator.

Unlock our interesting engineering insights on our IQS Library built using DPC++ compiler.