Five years ago, we made history by launching the IBM Quantum Experience, putting the first quantum processor on the cloud for anyone to run experiments. By Ryan Mandelbaum @IBM.
Accessing quantum devices wasn’t easy prior to 2016. Theorists had to convince hardware researchers at institutions like IBM to help them realize experiments on custom quantum processors.
“It gave us the validation that we had something, and that we could get a lot of people behind it,” said Jerry Chow, now-Director of Quantum Hardware System Development at IBM. More importantly, it proved to IBM overall that this would be a project worth devoting resources to. After witnessing the ThinkQ 2015 audience response, IBM’s then-VP of Science and Technology Dario Gil asked the IBM Quantum team what it would take to deliver the project faster.
Five years ago today, the team made history by launching the IBM Quantum Experience, putting the first quantum processor on the IBM Cloud so that anyone could run their own quantum computing experiments.
At the end of his conference presentation, MIT professor Isaac Chuang asked the crowd: Would they use small-scale, cloud-based IBM quantum processors? Everyone raised their hands.
The biggest lessons learned were how to build stable devices, how to bring them online, and how to automate some of the most important experiments - especially device calibration.Putting a quantum computer on the cloud requires an entirely different mindset. Very interesting article, for details follow the link. Superb read!
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