rryoung98

rryoung98

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Posted by rryoung98 •

NOTE:

UPDATES 6/19/25 2:45PM CST

We have sent all individuals expressing interest in using IBM devices an email. Please make sure to check with your teammates to make sure that at least one of you received it. Please read the instructions carefully! We also see that most of the teams have not transferred their credits quite yet. Please make sure to do so to get started with running on hardware and simulators. If you need help let us know!
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Posted by rryoung98 •

We're looking into this btw.
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Posted by rryoung98 •

Okay we will check and make sure that you're added in. What's your team name and challenge?
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Posted by rryoung98 •

Thanks I think I sent an email out today.
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Posted by rryoung98 • (edited)

  1. It really depends on what kind of results you are looking for. For 5 ~ 6 hours, the Amazon SV1 or our qBraid QIR simulator would most likely be ideal especially because the cost is quite low. With the initial credit amount you should have enough trial runs to comfortably run 8 ~ 10 simulations. In general, I would take the approach of conducting short runs to get a heuristic with local simulators then use the cloud simulators.
  2. Yes, we do shut down servers after a period of time, if you have a job that requires running for a long time, I would recommend using the qBraid SDK and our quantum console VSCode extension locally rather than on qBraid Lab.
  3. There are technically no limits except for the queue that everyone is subject to on every device and the amount of credits you have. Great questions! Good luck!
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Posted by rryoung98 •

UPDATES 6/11/25

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 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.
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Posted by rryoung98 •

If you or your teammates haven’t received an invitation to join the qBraid organization yet, it’s most likely that you did not go through.
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Posted by rryoung98 • (edited)

NOTE:

UPDATES 6/13/25 9:30AM CST

Please welcome Q-CTRL's team who will assist with their products:

https://aqora.io/comments/AENvbW1lbnQBl2ocmSdygb9uFkGYlh28

CREDITS

We have reviewed all teams in the MITRE, WorldBank, and Wells Fargo challenges. Your credits on qBraid have been allocated. If you are missing any please let us know. RULES:
  1. All teams have been allocated an equal amount to begin with additional simulator testing. Please make sure the circuits you intend to run on more expensive devices such as real hardware are well optimized to ensure that your credits are used efficiently. We would like to note that using pre-built circuit optimization techniques from qiskit and other frameworks is highly encouraged, but should not be the end-all solution. There are many times where gate counts can be reduced upon close inspection.
  2. We will provide more credits to those who use them first batch up. Please just message myself or pranet, our emails are in the org!
  3. Some teams are in multiple challenges and we have separated orgs intentionally, you are only allowed to use the credits allocated to the org / team respectively.

IBM

We have skimmed the Phase 2 proposals / updates and have identified all additional teams who are intending to use IBM. We will coordinate with them shortly (the point person is out of office until Monday).
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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