Global Industry Challenge 2025
The International Year of Quantum: Global Industry Challenge is hosted virtually with participants tackling a prioritized set of industry-defined use cases and collaborating and competing to develop corresponding solutions with quantum computers.
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Welcome to phase 3
Hello all,
My name is Ricky Young and I am part of the qBraid team who will be assisting those in Phase 3 with access to quantum devices.
Please feel free to use this discussion thread to ask any questions as we roll out access in the coming days.
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Posted by rryoung98 • (edited)
NOTE:
All participating individuals who we could find registered emails for has been sent an invite to join their respective teams for the challenges. If you have not received an invite to your team, please contact a teammate (single participants have all been identified) and have them add you to the org on qBraid.
CREDITS
In doing so, please make sure to accept the invite and we will allocate credits to the teams over the next 1 ~ 2 days.
IBM
If you are a team who is interested in using IBM, please make sure to respond IN THIS THREAD. We will connect you with the IBM team who will provide instructions on exclusive access to their devices.
How to use credits
Further, on qBraid we recommend using our qBraid SDK to run devices. If you have any questions on how to use it please let me know.
Secret devices?!
We may release some exciting new devices for you guys to try if it fits to be compelling and apt for the specific device. Stay tuned!
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Posted by avarga •
Hi Ricky,
I do not believe I received an email from qBraid; I was moved forward in the MITRE challenge.
Note - I am interested in using IBM to develop my solution and secret devices
Thanks
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Posted by nirajvenkat • (edited)
Hi Ricky,
I would like to use IBM for my challenge.
Edit: Count me in for any secret devices as well.
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Posted by marc_maussner •
Hi Ricky,
my team is also in for using IBM for the challenge.
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Posted by QuantumKev •
Great to meet you Ricky and we look forward to working with you along our journey.
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Posted by rryoung98 •
Looking forward to working with you as well!
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Posted by nirajvenkat •
Hi Ricky,
I am new to qBraid and was surprised to learn that more than 500 credits were used up when I ran a Pytorch notebook that uses GPU (no QPU). I noticed that just spinning up a lab and browsing without running the notebook can use these credits which the FAQ says as much: "Credits are consumed based on the computing resources and time you use on the platform."
I am wondering if there are any tips to manage the costs, and if there is predictable costs with running the same notebook. Of course I would test this myself but I am afraid I don't have enough credits.
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Posted by skylar •
Following up on this, how many credits do Phase 3 participants receive? Are there any costs for exceeding the credit limit?
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Posted by rryoung98 •
Hello Skylar and Niraj,
Yes on qBraid GPUs do cost credits and you can check the pricing , but don't worry, we will provide enough credits for your teams to run on both QPUs and GPUs to effectively get results.
If you are interested in running a notebook without any credit usage I would recommend using the free compute instance. For running a notebook which requires pytorch, you can opt to use the CPU compiler, reduce the batch size etc to get a rough estimate of the results.
If you are wondering how much the compute costs you can refer to our docs here: https://docs.qbraid.com/lab/user-guide/compute-manager
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Posted by Ragu1729 • (edited)
Dear Team,
Thank you for accepting our proposal. we truly appreciate the opportunity and are excited to be part of the next stage of this competition. We are also interested in IBM QPU resources.
We have a few questions as we start working:
- Our simulations usually take more than 5–6 hours. Which simulator would you recommend for long or complex runs? Are there any preferred ones on QBraid?
- We’ve noticed that Jupyter Notebook or Lab shuts down if the laptop is locked or disconnected for a while. Is there a recommended way to manage long-running jobs without interruptions without the client connected?
- Are there limits on how many parallel jobs or QPU tasks we can run, either on the same device or across multiple devices?
Thanks again for your support. we’re looking forward to getting started!
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Posted by skylar •
Hi Ricky, how can we share the QBraid notebooks with our teammates?
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Posted by rryoung98 •
Yes!
There certainly are ways to share notebooks on qBraid such as our share notebook feature available to standard subscription users.
However, what I would recommend for this part of the challenge is to use the qBraid SDK, our vscode extension and a private GitHub repository to make sure your team can work towards building a production level software to demonstrate your work.