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OpenQL
A Portable Quantum Programming Framework for Quantum Accelerators
With the potential of quantum algorithms to solve intractable classical problems, quantum computing is rapidly evolving, and more algorithms are being developed and optimized. Expressing these quantum algorithms using a high-level language and making them executable on a quantum
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QKSA
Quantum Knowledge Seeking Agent
In this research, we extend the universal reinforcement learning agent models of artificial general intelligence to quantum environments. The utility function of a classical exploratory stochastic Knowledge Seeking Agent, KL-KSA, is generalized to distance measures from quantum i
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QiBAM
Approximate Sub-String Index Search on Quantum Accelerators Applied to DNA Read Alignment
With small-scale quantum processors transitioning from experimental physics labs to industrial products, these processors in a few years are expected to scale up and be more robust for efficiently computing important algorithms in various fields. In this paper, we propose a quant
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GASAL2
A GPU accelerated sequence alignment library for high-throughput NGS data
BACKGROUND: Due the computational complexity of sequence alignment algorithms, various accelerated solutions have been proposed to speedup this analysis. NVBIO is the only available GPU library that accelerates sequence alignment of high-throughput NGS data, but has limited perfo
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Memristor For Computing
Myth or Reality?
CMOS technology and its sustainable scaling have been the enablers for the design and manufacturing of computer architectures that have been fuelling a wider range of applications. Today, however, both the technology and the computer architectures are suffering from serious chall
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Memristor For Computing
Myth or Reality?
CMOS technology and its sustainable scaling have been the enablers for the design and manufacturing of computer architectures that have been fuelling a wider range of applications. Today, however, both the technology and the computer architectures are suffering from serious chall
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Memristor For Computing
Myth or Reality?
CMOS technology and its sustainable scaling have been the enablers for the design and manufacturing of computer architectures that have been fuelling a wider range of applications. Today, however, both the technology and the computer architectures are suffering from serious chall
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Emerging Computing Devices
Challenges and Opportunities for Test and Reliability*
The paper addresses some of the opportunities and challenges related to test and reliability of three major emerging computing paradigms; i.e., Quantum Computing, Computing engines based on Deep Neural Networks for AI, and Approximate Computing (AxC). We present a quantum acceler
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Emerging Computing Devices
Challenges and Opportunities for Test and Reliability*
The paper addresses some of the opportunities and challenges related to test and reliability of three major emerging computing paradigms; i.e., Quantum Computing, Computing engines based on Deep Neural Networks for AI, and Approximate Computing (AxC). We present a quantum acceler
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Emerging Computing Devices
Challenges and Opportunities for Test and Reliability*
The paper addresses some of the opportunities and challenges related to test and reliability of three major emerging computing paradigms; i.e., Quantum Computing, Computing engines based on Deep Neural Networks for AI, and Approximate Computing (AxC). We present a quantum acceler
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Synthesizing HDL to Memristor Technology
A Generic Framework
Memristors are emerging devices with huge potentials. It has been shown that they can be used not only to design non-volatile memories, but also logic circuits. In the latter, memristor devices are stacked on a CMOS circuit which
generates the required control signals needed by t
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QuTech Central Controller
A Quantum Control Architecture for a Surface-17 Logical Qubit
The goal of this thesis is the design and development of the QuTech Central Controller, a system conceived to serve as the hardware/software interface of a quantum computer. This system represents an evolution of the QuMA microarchitecture to control a Surface-17 superconducting
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Unitary Decomposition
Implemented in the OpenQL programming language for quantum computation
Unitary Decomposition is an algorithm for translating a unitary matrix into many small unitary matrices, which correspond to a circuit that can be executed on a quantum computer. It is implemented in the quantum programming framework of the QCA-group at TU Delft: OpenQL, a librar
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Quantum Algorithms
For pattern-matching in genomic sequences
Fast sequencing and analysis of (microorganism, plant or human) genomes will open up new vistas in fields like personalised medication, food yield and epigenetic research. Current state-of-the-art DNA pattern matching techniques use heuristic algorithms on computing clusters of C
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Mapping of quantum algorithms on a quantum chip
2D topology with nearest neighbor interaction
Quantum algorithms can be described by quantum circuits which consist of quantum bits (qubits) and quantum gates. Such a circuit description assumes that any kind of interaction between qubits is possible. However, quantum chips have limited qubits connectivity only allowing, for
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Moving workloads to a better place
Optimizing computer architectures for data-intensive applications
The performance of supercomputers is not growing anymore at the rate it once used to. Several years ago a break with historical trends appeared. First the break appeared at the lower end of worldwide supercomputer installations, but now it affects a significant number of systems
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Quantum Control Architecture
Bridging the Gap between Quantum Software and Hardware
Quantum computers can accelerate solving some problems which are inefficiently solved by classical computers, such as quantum chemistry simulation. To date, quantum computer engineering has focused primarily at opposite ends of the required system stack: devising high-level progr
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Applications of Quantum Computation and Algorithmic Information
For Causal Modeling in Genomics and Reinforcement Learning
Efforts to realize a sufficiently large controllable quantum processor are actively being pursued globally. These quantum devices are programmed by specifying the manipulation of quantum information via quantum algorithms. This doctoral research provides an application perspectiv
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Hybrid NEMS-CMOS Architectures for Ultra Low Power Smart Systems
Architectures for Ultra Low Power Smart Systems
The availability of inexpensive and powerful processors provides the means for the computation ecosystem to change its fundamental paradigm towards the Internet of Things (IoT) where ubiquitous nanosystems add intelligence to every object that surrounds us. The new trend for most
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On Hardware-Accelerated Maximally-Efficient Systolic Arrays
Acceleration and Optimization of Genomics Pipelines Through Hardware/Software Co-Design
Developments in sequencing technology have drastically reduced the cost of DNA sequencing. The raw sequencing data being generated requires processing through computationally demanding suites of bioinformatics algorithms called genomics pipelines. The greatly decreased cost of se
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