Is there any way to connec a backend remotly?

[arejula27]

I would like to use Qibo from an HPC system. My idea is to have multiple MPI processes, with one of them communicating with the Qibo backend. My processes are written in C, which is another challenge, as I have only found references for Python. Would this be possible with Qibo?

[scarrazza]

Hi @arejula27, thanks for your question. At the moment, we don't support C/C++ natively. However, the library (qibo & qibolab) accepts qasm or qibo raw json representation of circuits as input for execution on simulation or hardware (qibolab can execute qasm from c/c++ and rust). For remote execution, in terms of server-side code, we have some beta code in development which is being used for our cloud setup and in principle could be adjusted to match other HPC setups. If you are interested in the latter point, we can arrange a call.

[alecandido]

That's something we were planning to support. But, in the end, it just boils down to serialization, and possibly automatically spawning another process for the server, handling the communication between the two sides.

In any case, as @scarrazza said, a server already exists. Though with a slightly different concept that what I was mentioning. So, better just discussing that, for the time being.

[arejula27]

okay, thank you for your reply, we can arrange a small call if you want :D

[scarrazza]

@arejula27 great, I have just sent you an invite.