Examining QRMI as a Unified Interface for Quantum-HPC Integration

This paper is available for free on the arXiv.

Yoonho Park from IBM will present it at the SFWM workshop at SC26 on November 15, 2026, at 10:30–10:45 CST in room W178a.

The paper examines QRMI as a unified interface for integrating heterogeneous quantum resources into HPC environments. It extends the earlier Slurm integration to PBS, LSF, Grid Engine, Kubernetes, and Flux, comparing scheduler-specific integration patterns and alternative approaches to quantum resource management.

I contributed to the work as a Pasqal co-author and QRMI maintainer, alongside collaborators from the QRMI community.

Coverage

Quantum Computing Report covered our collaborative paper on October 10, 2026, discussing QRMI’s integration with HPC workload managers and the participating institutions.

Abstract

The efficient and scalable integration of quantum resources into high-performance computing (HPC) environments requires standardized mechanisms for resource management, scheduling, and workflow orchestration across diverse and heterogeneous infrastructures. The Quantum Resource Management Interface (QRMI) addresses this challenge through a thin, vendor-agnostic middleware layer that provides standardized APIs for scheduling, executing, and monitoring quantum workloads while exposing quantum resources as first-class schedulable resources alongside CPUs and GPUs. This paper extends the validation of QRMI to a broad range of workload managers, including PBS, LSF, Grid Engine, Kubernetes, and the Flux Framework, encompassing traditional batch schedulers, a cloud-native orchestration platform, and a graph-based scheduler. We examine the integration patterns, implementation requirements, and scheduler-specific considerations associated with each environment and compare QRMI with alternative approaches to quantum resource integration. We demonstrate that QRMI provides a portable and flexible abstraction layer that minimizes scheduler-specific modifications while enabling consistent access to heterogeneous quantum resources across both on-premises and cloud environments.