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dwave-system

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What it is

dwave-system is maintained by dwavesystems and sits in the Annealing and Ising lane of the open-source quantum map.

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Who it's for

Developers interested in Ising-model formulations, annealing workflows, and D-Wave-style solver ecosystems.

What you can build or learn

  • See how annealing-oriented projects model optimization problems.
  • Understand embeddings, samplers, and the surrounding tooling needed in practice.
  • Compare annealing workflows against gate-model and hybrid alternatives.

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============ dwave-system

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dwave-system is an API for easily incorporating D-Wave quantum computers as a sampler in the Ocean software stack <https://docs.dwavequantum.com/en/latest/ocean/stack.html>, directly or through the Leap <https://cloud.dwavesys.com/leap/> service's cloud-based hybrid solvers. It includes DWaveSampler, a dimod sampler that accepts and passes system parameters such as system identification and authentication down the stack, StrideHybridSolver, for Leap's Stride™ hybrid solver, and others. It also includes several useful composites---layers of pre- and post-processing---that can be used with DWaveSampler to handle minor-embedding, optimize chain strength, etc.

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Installation

Installation from PyPI:

.. code-block:: bash

pip install dwave-system

.. note:: As of dwave-system 1.28.0, support for dwave-drivers is removed (it was used for calibration of qubits in chains via VirtualGraphComposite, but it's no longer required due to improved calibration of newer QPUs).

Installation from source:

.. code-block:: bash

pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

License

Released under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE file.

Contributing

Ocean's contributing guide <https://docs.dwavequantum.com/en/latest/ocean/contribute.html>_ has guidelines for contributing to Ocean packages.

Release Notes

dwave-system makes use of reno <https://docs.openstack.org/reno/>_ to manage its release notes.

When making a contribution to dwave-system that will affect users, create a new release note file by running

.. code-block:: bash

reno new your-short-descriptor-here

You can then edit the file created under releasenotes/notes/. Remove any sections not relevant to your changes. Commit the file along with your changes.

See reno's user guide <https://docs.openstack.org/reno/latest/user/usage.html>_ for details.

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