Rebeca Rasco Flores
Rebeca Rasco Flores holds a BSc in Health Engineering from the University of Seville and an MSc in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Málaga. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Málaga, where she is pursuing a PhD in Mechatronics Engineering. Her research focuses on the optimization and acceleration of quantum simulators on high-performance architectures, with a particular interest in RISC-V vector extensions and multi-core parallelism. Her work aims to bridge the gap between advanced classical computing and the efficient simulation of quantum circuits.
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Classical quantum computing simulation is computationally demanding due to exponential state-vector growth.This work evaluates parallelization strategies on the RISC-V SpacemiT K1 using the RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV v1.0) and OpenMP. The dominant qubit-wise multiplication kernel was implemented in four variants: Sequential, OpenMP (MIMD), RVV vectorized (SIMD), and hybrid (OpenMP+RVV). Benchmarks up to 30 qubits 230 show size-dependent behavior: SIMD benefits small systems, multithreading improves medium scales, and large systems become memory-bound. The hybrid configuration achieves a peak speedup of 72.1× at 16 qubits and maintains 34.7× at 30 qubits, demonstrating the benefits of vector extensions and multi-core parallelism for quantum computing simulation workloads.