Hoa T. Nguyen, Muhammad Usman, and Rajkumar Buyya,“QFaaS: A Serverless Function-as-a-Service Framework for Quantum Computing”, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 154, Pages: 281-300, Elsevier Press, May 2024.
Research project
QFaaS
A serverless Function-as-a-Service framework for practical quantum computing in the NISQ era.
Overview
QFaaS is a Quantum Function-as-a-Service framework that leverages the advantages of the serverless computing model and state-of-the-art software engineering techniques to advance practical quantum computing in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. Our framework provides essential elements of a serverless quantum system to streamline service-oriented quantum application development in cloud environments, such as combining hybrid quantum-classical computation, automating the backend selection, and adapting Quantum DevOps workflow. QFaaS offers the first full-stack and unified quantum serverless platform by integrating multiple well-known quantum software development kits, quantum simulators, and quantum cloud providers (IBM Quantum and Amazon Braket).

Key features
Hybrid quantum-classical computation in a serverless model
Automated backend selection for NISQ workloads
Quantum DevOps workflow adaptation for cloud environments
Integration with well-known SDKs, simulators, IBM Quantum, and Amazon Braket

