Re: Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-18 Thread Stephen Coady
@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,

Re: Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-15 Thread José Abílio Matos
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

Re: Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-15 Thread Leigh Griffin
Count me in for sure. Answer to Matthew inline! On Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 16:11 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:58:28PM +, Stephen Coady wrote: > > I've recently been experimenting with Quantum computing and learning > > about its uses and benefits. There are currently

Re: Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 06:41:40PM +, 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

Re: Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-15 Thread José Abílio Matos
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

Re: Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-15 Thread José Abílio Matos
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

Re: Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:58:28PM +, 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

Is there interest in Quantum computing in Fedora?

2021-01-15 Thread Stephen Coady
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