Hi,
I've recently been experimenting with Quantum computing and learning about its uses and benefits. There are currently libraries available in python to experiment with this technology so I thought it would be interesting to see if others in the community were working in this area.
I've checked and there is no #fedora-quantum so I've created it, and if there's enough interest maybe we can form a SIG and get some working projects going together. I'd love to throw some ideas around to see how we can use this technology.
For the moment, I'm concentrating on getting the QISKIT [1] libraries packaged in Fedora. I should hopefully have some updates together for this very soon.
Thanks, hope to see you in #fedora-quantum, Stephen
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:58:28PM +0000, Stephen Coady wrote:
I've recently been experimenting with Quantum computing and learning about its uses and benefits. There are currently libraries available in python to experiment with this technology so I thought it would be interesting to see if others in the community were working in this area.
I'd love to see us in this area. Is this meant to be used with IBM's cloud-based quantum computing offerings, or are there other hardware options?
On Friday, January 15, 2021 4:10:42 PM WET Matthew Miller wrote:
I'd love to see us in this area.
Matthew, I can understand your point of view. Since the platforms that we support are mostly 64-bit you would like also to see Fedora support (pure) 64 qubits systems. ;-)
And yes, I am aware that in one case it is the word size and in the other the whole size. :-)
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 06:41:40PM +0000, José Abílio Matos wrote:
On Friday, January 15, 2021 4:10:42 PM WET Matthew Miller wrote:
I'd love to see us in this area.
Matthew, I can understand your point of view. Since the platforms that we support are mostly 64-bit you would like also to see Fedora support (pure) 64 qubits systems. ;-)
As I understand it, IBM's state of the art beats that by one already!
On Friday, January 15, 2021 7:08:34 PM WET Matthew Miller wrote:
As I understand it, IBM's state of the art beats that by one already!
I knew that the number was higher than 64, but then I would ruin the joke. :-)
At the same time if we do not measure it the number could be 64. :-D This is more a despair laugh in case you wondering. :-)
I have been looking lately at things like Quantum Decision Theory where we use the quantum formalism to describe human cognitive processes. So it is more than just the quantum computing that is interesting.
@matthew QISKIT itself is just an sdk which gives you programmatic access to a QASM simulator - no link to any proprietary hardware. There is another module they provide [1] which then allows you to directly interact with IBMs hardware.
[1] https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-ibmq-provider
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 20:14, José Abílio Matos jamatos@fc.up.pt wrote:
On Friday, January 15, 2021 7:08:34 PM WET Matthew Miller wrote:
As I understand it, IBM's state of the art beats that by one already!
I knew that the number was higher than 64, but then I would ruin the joke. :-)
At the same time if we do not measure it the number could be 64. :-D
This is more a despair laugh in case you wondering. :-)
I have been looking lately at things like Quantum Decision Theory where we use the quantum formalism to describe human cognitive processes. So it is more than just the quantum computing that is interesting.
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Count me in for sure. Answer to Matthew inline!
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 16:11 Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:58:28PM +0000, Stephen Coady wrote:
I've recently been experimenting with Quantum computing and learning about its uses and benefits. There are currently libraries available in python to experiment with this technology so I thought it would be interesting to see if others in the community were working in this area.
I'd love to see us in this area. Is this meant to be used with IBM's cloud-based quantum computing offerings, or are there other hardware options?
Qiskit is aimed at multiple Quantum hardware architectures and the Open QASM format aims to be vendor neutral.
For general community awareness, the IBM Quantum Experience is heavily customized and linked into Qiskit (which came from IBM so no surprise) to effectively provide IBMQ as a default hardware to run almost out of the box on.
I also know that OpenShift has an operator which came from some R&D work in this area which is pretty cool to shift workloads into Quantum. https://github.com/husky-parul/openshift-quantum-operators
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On Friday, January 15, 2021 12:58:28 PM WET Stephen Coady wrote:
For the moment, I'm concentrating on getting the QISKIT [1] libraries packaged in Fedora. I should hopefully have some updates together for this very soon.
That would be nice to have. Are there any new requirements, other naturally than the Qiskit's sub- packages, that are not yet on Fedora?
Regards,