Quant-Net Agent

The QUANT-NET Control Plane (QNCP) runs as a distributed system. This Agent registers resources, interfaces with devices, and interprets protocol commands from a Controller instance. The Agent package includes the concept of extensible command interpreters, which define the behavior of the Agents when processing protocol messages and interacting with the underlying hardware or simulation devices.

The Agent includes a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) that defines a base set of hardware classes for managing the interaction with quantum devices and external experiment control frameworks.

Development Install

Pull requirements and install package in edit mode.

pip3 install -e .

The quantnet_agent script will be available in your local path, or check ~/.local/bin

$ quantnet_agent --help
Usage: quantnet_agent [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -c, --config TEXT         Main configuration file  [default:
                            ./config/agent.cfg]
  -n, --node-config TEXT    Node configuration file  [default: ~/.quant-
                            net/node.json]
  -a, --agent_id TEXT       Specify an agent identifier  [default: ]
  --mq-broker-host TEXT     Message queue broker host
  --mq-broker-port INTEGER  Message queue broker port
  -d, --debug               Enable debug logging
  --interpreter-path TEXT   Location of additional command interpreters
  --schema-path TEXT        Specify a path containing additional schema files
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Example usage

An MQTT broker should be available for the agent to connect to. A development docker-compose file that starts an Eclipse Mosquitto instance is available in quant-net-docker:docker-compose-backend.yml

Testing node config files exist in quant-net-mq:quant-net-mq/schemas/examples

Running the agent:

quantnet_agent --mq-broker-host <broker> -n <path_to>/quant-net-mq/quantnet_mq/schema/examples/conf_qnode.json