Not many people might be familiar with Microsoft’s Quantum Dev Kit but they must have heard about Quantum computing and the heavenly future they seem to promise.
The Quantum Development Kit is Microsoft’s integrated platform for building quantum applications using a new quantum-focused programming language called Q# (Q Sharp). It was interlaced with only Visual Studio on Windows until Microsoft recently made a port for macOS and Linux which contains support for quantum simulation and VS Code.
Genuine Quantum devices are remarkably hard to come by but the Quantum Dev Kit makes it possible for software to run on either a Qubit simulators. Since its release, thousands of developers have been able to preview how it feels to work using Quantum States instead of the typical Binary States. This has led Microsoft to not only port the kit to macOS and Linux but to also Open Source its libraries.
The development libraries and demo examples which were launched alongside Q# are released under the Open Source MIT License and are available on GitHub.
Microsoft Quantum Development Kit has also been made to be Python-compatible with support for Q# to make native calls to Python routines and vice-versa and the simulator’s performance has been increased by 4-5 times.
Install Microsoft Quantum Dev Kit in Ubuntu Linux
If you would want to delve into the new world of Quantum Computing with Microsoft’s Dev Kit you need to have Visual Studio Code installed.
1. Install the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit for Visual Studio Code extension.
2. Install the Q# Development Kit project templates using your preferred command line by running the following command.
$ dotnet new -i "Microsoft.Quantum.ProjectTemplates::0.2-*"
3. Clone the Microsoft Quantum Developer Kit Samples and Libraries from its GitHub repo.
$ git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/Quantum.git
4. Navigate into the newly cloned directory and run start up Visual Studio Code.
$ cd Quantum $ code .
5. Run the teleport sample program.
$ cd Samples/Teleportation/ $ dotnet build $ dotnet run
Your workstation is set up for Q# development if the program runs and the output is similar to: has 8 rounds of successful teleportation with varying values True/False sent each round.
Are you excited about the availability of the Quantum Development Kit for Linux and what are your thoughts on Quantum Computing in general? Drop your thoughts in the comments section below.
After doing the things according to the procedure, it was such a result.
why.Please tell me.
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Unhandled Exception: System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL ‘Microsoft.Quantum.Simulator.Runtime.dll’: The specified module or one of its dependencies could not be found.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
at Microsoft.Quantum.Simulation.Simulators.QuantumSimulator.Init()
at Microsoft.Quantum.Simulation.Simulators.QuantumSimulator..ctor(Boolean throwOnReleasingQubitsNotInZeroState, Nullable`1 randomNumberGeneratorSeed, Boolean disableBorrowing)
at Microsoft.Quantum.Examples.Teleportation.Program.Main(String[] args) in /root/Quantum/Samples/Teleportation/Program.cs:line 13
It is unbelievable than any serious or competent Linux developer would utilize a Quantum developer Kit from Microsoft – that uses a completely non-standard, and hardly used (possibly) “proprietary” programming language like Q# – even though it interacts with Python, when such developer can get quantum Developer Kit QISKit from IBM that uses Python “natively” , and from a company that has infinitely more experience, expertise and deployment in quantum computing than Microsoft will ever have.
Furthermore, who develops for Microsoft, other than desktop apps, since “all” mobile is Apple iOS, Android and Linux derivative based, “all” Docker and Kubernetes advanced Cloud Computing Container technology is Linux and/or UNIX-like based, All Internet networking technologies are UNIX based as original and current platform of Internet creation, and every Medical Research base, Scientific research base and Enterprise technology base is UNIX/Linux (NIX)?
It was only very recently – probably within last 6 – 8 months, that Microsoft even “formally” recognized and accepted Python programming language as a tier one development tool in the company’s ecosystem. Everybody else has Python as premier language forever.
The US Defense department, the European Union, China, India, Taiwan, South Korea base their advanced technological development on NIX foundation, not Microsoft Windows.
Using Microsoft quantum development on Linux OS is a very dumb idea.