QuTiP News
Maintaining a successful open source project is challenging. Most contributors are volunteers (thank you!), and even for those who receive remuneration there are often challenges. Someone might be paid a fixed amount to contribute a specific feature, or might be given permission to spend some, usually small, fraction of their time on the project. As a very immediate example, I’m a volunteer writing this post for QuTiP at 21:30 at night while my wife puts my daughter to sleep.
QuTiP isn’t just any project though. It’s a big 1, mature 2, open quantum systems 3 project, and each of these come with their own additional challenges (and rewards, of course).
That’s why when Andy Oram offered to interview us about running QuTiP, we leapt at the opportunity.
- Quantum Computing: Open Source Communities - Part 2 (QuTiP)
- Quantum Computing: Open Source Communities - Part 1 (OQTOPUS & classiq)
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QuTiP is big. We actively release at least 8 separate packages, across two languages (Python & Julia), and maintain at least 14 separate repositories, providing not only the software itself but also tutorials, documentation, benchmarks, and this webiste. ↩
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QuTiP is mature. The repository is 14 years old. We’re on version 5 and planning version 6. We’re still going strong. It’s used and worked on by people all over the world everyday. ↩
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Open Quantum Systems are complex. Contributing doesn’t necessarily require vast experience (we regularly have excellent contributions from even undergraduate students), but it does require headspace. Getting really stuck into a topic might require reading a research paper or a textbook. ↩
Mar 28th, 2024
QuTiP 5 - Major Release!
Mar 7, 2023
QuTiP 2022 Annual Report
Feb 6, 2023
Google Summer of Code 2023 is coming!
December 12, 2022
QuTiP 4.7.1 Released
November 7, 2022
QuTiP highlighted in the 2022 Quantum Open Source Software Survey
October 26, 2022
2022 QuTiP Student Presentations (GSoC Projects)
July 1, 2022
QuTiP 2022 Google Summer of Code Projects Announced
April 15, 2022
QuTiP 2022 Google Summer of Code Proposals Due!
April 13, 2022
QuTiP 4.7 Released
April 11, 2022
QuTiP 2021 Annual Report
June 7, 2021
2021 Google Summer of Code Project Updates
March 15, 2021
QuTiP applies to Google Summer of Code 2021 under the NumFOCUS organization.
June 22, 2020
2020 Google Summer of Code Project Updates
March 16, 2020
Student applications open for Google Summer of Code 2020.
July 23, 2019
Two students working on QuTiP projects for Google Summer of Code
July 3, 2019
QuTiP 4.4.0 is released. Available with conda and pip.
June 25, 2019
An interactive course on QuTiP and open source for physicists is taught at ICTP Trieste, Italy
March 1, 2019
QuTiP Participates to Google Summer of Code 2019 trough NumFOCUS
February 21, 2019
First QuTiP Developers Workshop Held at RIKEN on February 19-21, 2019
January 9, 2019
QuTiP is Featured on Nature's Physics Blog
August 31, 2018
QuTiP is Presented at a European Meeting of Researchers Using Python, Trento, Italy
April 26, 2018
QuTiP Joins NumFOCUS as Affiliated Project
September 23, 2017
Interview with the QuTiP Developers - PODCAST.__INIT__
March 27, 2017
QuTiP Used to Simulate Perfect Quantum State Transfer Over Noisy Transmission Lines
March 9, 2017
QuTiP Mentioned in The Economist Technology Quarterly on Quantum Technologies
December 1, 2016
QuTiP Highlighted in UK Quantum Technology Program's "Commercial Prospects for Quantum Computing"
February 4, 2015