Quantum in the Cloud: Running Quantum Workloads on Kubernetes
summary
IBM demonstrates running quantum workloads on Kubernetes using Qiskit + Python and open-source middleware, showing a working coin-flip circuit that yields ~50/50 results on a simulator, a VQE chemistry run estimating LiH ground-state energies (examples: -7.5, -5.8 for different bond lengths), and a circuit knitting demo that decomposes an 8-qubit circuit into two 5-qubit pieces for execution. Orchestration uses Kubernetes to parallelize jobs and remote backends; current hardware note: ~433 qubits announced and a ~2030 projection for crypto-breaking scale.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Quantum in the Cloud intro
- 1:54What is Quantum computing
- 8:17Quantum vs classical
- 14:35Quantum solving unsolvable
- 28:06Qiskit programming
- 33:16Quantum on Kubernetes
- 35:42Chemistry simulation
- 39:10Circuit knitting
- 41:17Key takeaways
- 42:20Q&A timelines cryptography
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