Rensselaer has a IBM Quantum System One computer on site. This computer is available for use by our students, faculty and research partners. In addition to our on premise system completion IBM has made other Quantum System One computers available for our use.
Quantum computer access
RPI community members can request access to use our IBM Quantum System One. To request access please fill out the access request form at https://webforms.rpi.edu/form/rpi-quantum-hub-access-request
Once completed your access request will be be approved in a 1-2 business days.
You will be granted access to two "Hubs" in the IBM Quantum cloud. The first "rpi-rensselaer" grants access to our on premise Quantum computer. The second "rpi" grants access to other remote IBM Quantum systems and simulators. The rpi-rensselaer system should be used unless there are specific reasons to use the other system, we have much more capacity available for use on the RPI one.
If you are running a lot of Quantum jobs and find that they are not running quickly enough please open a support ticket and we will look into granting additional resources to your research.
Getting started
If you are new to quantum computing check out the tutorials at https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials.html and the Qiskit YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/qiskit . They are a great way to get an introduction to this new technology.
The "Basics of Quantum Information" course at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI1SfFuuX-o&list=PLOFEBzvs-VvqoeIypXYLLf0PY-WOQMLR3 is a great introduction.
A great way to use QisKit to build and run your first Quantum circuit is to use a Jupyter notebook. We have created a example on how to run a simple circuit and submit to our Quantum computer at https://docs.cci.rpi.edu/software/Qiskit/#running-qiskit-from-google-colab .
Assistance
If you need assistance with getting access to our quantum systems or have questions please open a support in ITSSC. While our IT staff is knowledgeable about accessing the quantum systems and using Qiskit they are not quantum programmers. If the nature of your problem is with quantum programming or algorithm design within Qiskit it may be best to contact the IBM Quantum Support team at ibmquantum@ibm.com.
Additional Resources
IBM Quantum Cloud
Provides access to the quantum computers available for RPI use https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/
Qiskit
Qiskit is the software toolkit for using quantum computing at Rensselaer, https://qiskit.org/ .
IBM Quantum Learning
IBM Quantum Learning provides access to courses and tutorials to learn the basics of quantum computing, and how to use IBM Quantum services and systems to solve real-world problems. It can be accessed at https://learning.quantum.ibm.com/ .
Qiskit at CCI
Our Center for Computational Innovation has a tutorial on running Qiskit there at https://docs.cci.rpi.edu/software/Qiskit/
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