Request cost function to support costing quantinuum systems usage
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Describe the feature
The second item, CUDA-Q does not provide any utility to estimate Hardware Quantum Credits (HQCs). The current guidance is that customers run against the syntax checker and check the Nexus portal Quantinuum Systems Job tab.
The feature request is to add a function for quantinuum systems cudaq.quantinuum_cost(kernel: cudaq.kernel) -> float which submits a CUDA-Q kernel to a syntax checker (suffixed with SC, e.g., H1-1SC) and returns the HQC cost as a floating point number.
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Research direction
Start by tracing the existing Quantinuum syntax-checker submission path and the Python CUDA-Q kernel API. Define how cudaq.quantinuum_cost(kernel: cudaq.kernel) selects the suffixed syntax-checker system and reports its HQC cost, then add coverage for the returned floating-point value and relevant submission failures.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, python
- Domain
- backend-api-design, quantum-computing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100