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  "abstract": "High Performance Computing (HPC) centers are expanding to integrate quantum resources, enabling hybrid quantum-classical workflows for complex optimization. Integrating quantum processing units (QPUs) into workload managers poses an orchestration challenge: a remote QPU introduces a second queue - a \"two-queue problem\" - alongside the scheduler's own. We present Fluence, a Kubernetes scheduler plugin backed by the Fluxion graph-based scheduler, enabling gang-scheduled placement for quantum-classical workloads and custom resources. First, under contention, Fluence's atomic gang placement eliminates the node-time a default scheduler wastes on partially placed gangs. Second, a synchronization primitive gates consumers behind a single producer's shared quantum task, cutting worker idle time roughly 1.2-12x under short queues and orders of magnitude under long ones. Third, policy-aware backend selection cuts mean per-run cost roughly 72x and time-to-result from hours to under two minutes. Together, these results show that quantum-awareness can be added to a cloud-native scheduler without modifying user containers.",
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    {
      "name": "Vanessa Sochat"
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    {
      "name": "Daniel Milroy"
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  "published": "2026-09-08",
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  "title": "Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling",
  "title_text": "Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling",
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