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This release introduces a distributed GPU brute-force plugin for Omnisolver, enabling exact exhaustive searches of QUBO and Ising problems up to $N=60$ on clusters of NVIDIA H100s. The update provides a critical ground-truth oracle for validating classical heuristics like the Simulated Bifurcation Machine while offering automatic numerical stabilization for larger problem sizes.
Omnisolver: An extensible interface to Ising spin-glass and QUBO solvers: adding a distributed GPU brute-force plugin
arXiv:2610.10542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This software update extends Omnisolver with \texttt{omnisolver-bruteforce}, a first-class plugin for exact exhaustive search of QUBO and Ising instances on CUDA-enabled GPUs. The update contributes three components: packaging of the single-GPU brute-force kernel of [Computer Physics Communications 260, 107728, 2021] as a first-class Omnisolver plugin with a uniform Python and CLI interface, a Ray-based distributed framework that splits the search into $2^{k}$ fixed-variable subproblems and dispatches them across multiple GPUs and hosts, with a controller that gathers and merges partial results, and numerical stabilization of the fast \texttt{float32} ground-state path through compensated incremental updates, periodic exact energy re-anchoring, and best-buffer refresh. Stabilization activates automatically for $N \geq 40$ leaving the public sampler API is unchanged. On dense random Ising instances we measure exhaustive solve times up to $N=60$ on $8\times$ NVIDIA H100 (96 GB) GPUs, reaching $\approx\!3.15$ days at $N=60$ in close agreement with the empirical $t_{N+1}=2\,t_N$ doubling rule, with the distributed sampler reaching the full $\approx\!8\times$ speedup over a single H100 from $N\!\gtrsim\!44$ onwards. The plugin thereby serves as a practical ground-truth oracle for state-of-the-art classical heuristics such as the Simulated Bifurcation Machine.
Abstract:This software update extends Omnisolver with \texttt{omnisolver-bruteforce}, a first-class plugin for exact exhaustive search of QUBO and Ising instances on CUDA-enabled GPUs. The update contributes three components: packaging of the single-GPU brute-force kernel of [Computer Physics Communications 260, 107728, 2021] as a first-class Omnisolver plugin with a uniform Python and CLI interface, a Ray-based distributed framework that splits the search into $2^{k}$ fixed-variable subproblems and dispatches them across multiple GPUs and hosts, with a controller that gathers and merges partial results, and numerical stabilization of the fast \texttt{float32} ground-state path through compensated incremental updates, periodic exact energy re-anchoring, and best-buffer refresh. Stabilization activates automatically for $N \geq 40$ leaving the public sampler API is unchanged. On dense random Ising instances we measure exhaustive solve times up to $N=60$ on $8\times$ NVIDIA H100 (96 GB) GPUs, reaching $\approx\!3.15$ days at $N=60$ in close agreement with the empirical $t_{N+1}=2\,t_N$ doubling rule, with the distributed sampler reaching the full $\approx\!8\times$ speedup over a single H100 from $N\!\gtrsim\!44$ onwards. The plugin thereby serves as a practical ground-truth oracle for state-of-the-art classical heuristics such as the Simulated Bifurcation Machine.
Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
arXiv:2610.10542 [physics.comp-ph]
(or arXiv:2610.10542v1 [physics.comp-ph] for this version)
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