  Quantum Inspire has taken important steps to enable quantum applications by
developing a setting that allows the execution of hybrid algorithms. Currently,
the setting uses a classical server (HPC node) co-located with the quantum
computer for the high frequency coupling needed by hybrid algorithms. A fast
task manager (dispatcher) has been developed to orchestrate the interaction
between the server and the quantum computer. Although successful, the setting
imposes a specific hybrid job-structure. This is most likely always going to be
the case and we are currently discussing how to make sure this does not hamper
the uptake of the setting. Furthermore, first steps have been taken towards the
integration with the Dutch National High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center,
hosted by SURF. As a first approach we have setup a setting consisting of two
SLURM clusters, one in the HPC (C1) and the second (C2) co-located with Quantum
Inspire API. Jobs are submitted from C1 to C2. Quantum Inspire can then
schedule with C2 the jobs to the quantum computer. With this setting, we enable
control from both SURF and Quantum Inspire on the jobs being executed. By using
C1 for the jobs submission we remove the accounting burden from Quantum
Inspire. By having C2 co-located with Quantum Inspire API, we make the setting
more resilient towards network failures. This setting can be extended for other
HPC centers to submit jobs to Quantum Inspire backends.
