Avoid accessing GPUs when using CPU only #2012
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Summary
This is fix for issue #1686
Details and comments
Aer queried available methods and devices by testing with simple circuit whether it successfully runs or not everytime when AerSimulator is initialized. So in the initialization phase, Aer accesses GPUs even if users only need to run on CPU.
In this PR, devices are queried to C++ binary if it is built for GPU or not.
And methods are listed in Python side.
Aer accessed all the available GPUs at the initialization phase. In this PR, only GPUs set in
target_gpus
options are accessed when usingdevice="GPU"
option.