• Automation framework: CK
  
• Workflow: quantum hackathon workflow
  
• Development repository: ck-quantum
  
• Source: GitHub
  
• How to get the stable version from this portal via the CK client:
  
  pip install cbench
  cb download module:hackathon.20180615 --version=1.0.0 --all
  ck help hackathon.20180615
  
• How to get the development version:
  
  pip install ck
  ck pull repo:ck-quantum
  ck help hackathon.20180615
  
• CK automation actions (CLI with the Python CK API and JSON IO):
  
  • ck get_raw_config hackathon.20180615 - get raw config for repo widget (API)
    
  • ck get_raw_data hackathon.20180615 - get raw data for repo-widget (API)
    

1st Quantum Computing Hackathon, Cambridge, 15 June 2018

Installation (on Ubuntu)

Install global prerequisites, Python3 and its pip (Python2 is also supported)

$ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip

Install Collective Knowledge

$ sudo pip3 install ck

Installation (on MacOS)

Install Python3 and its pip (Python2 is also supported)

$ brew update
$ brew reinstall python

$ pip install ck

Non-root CK installation

You can install CK in your local user space as follows:

$ git clone http://github.com/ctuning/ck
$ export PATH=$PWD/ck/bin:$PATH
$ export PYTHONPATH=$PWD/ck:$PYTHONPATH

Test CK installation

$ ck version

Common part of the workflow installation

Pull CK repositories

$ ck pull repo:ck-quantum
$ ck pull repo:ck-env
$ ck pull repo:ck-rigetti
$ ck pull repo:ck-qiskit

Detect a Python interpreter (interactively choose one if there are several options)

$ ck detect soft:compiler.python

Install this CK repository with all its dependencies (other CK repos to reuse artifacts)

$ ck install package:tool-hackathon

Install pyQuil

$ ck install package:lib-pyquil-1.9.0

Run a demo program (press Enter if prompted)

$ ck run program:pyquil-demo
...

    * tmp-stdout.tmp

      Number of games: 10
      Q's winning average: 1.0
      Picard's flip-decision average: 0.5

Run VQE

$ ck run program:rigetti-vqe

• 1.0.0 (2019-10-16)

• .cm/desc.json (3 bytes)
• .cm/info.json (302 bytes)
• .cm/meta.json (328 bytes)
• .cm/updates.json (326 bytes)
• README.md (1488 bytes)
• module.py (16326 bytes)