Insider Brief An IBM patent application describes a way to run multiple users’ quantum jobs together while reducing the work required for error mitigation.
A user’s program may require only a portion of a processor’s qubits, the basic units of quantum information.
The application describes storing the resulting information in noise models—descriptions of the errors associated with those operations.
The software could also move a waiting program forward in the queue if doing so lets it use noise information while that information is still valid.
Under the strictest option, the system would combine them only when it already has the necessary noise models.