Classical

When we talk about classical miners, we mean our bread and butter compute platforms that don't support entanglement: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and the like.

While the network often leads with quantum computing as a differentiator, these traditional compute architectures are a first class citizen of the Quip Network that help to validate the quantum computers are really delivering improved performance.

Node Requirements

Node requirements are minimal. There is no barrier to entry for running a node, but you will have to fit the blockchain on local storage and your block rewards will be correlated with your ability to efficiently solve the Proofs of Useful Work supported by the network.

The first Proof of Useful Work is finding the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian, often called an Ising Model problem. These solutions can be used in a variety of optimization and constraint programming problems, providing useful outputs for real businesses.

The network currently publishes Metal and CUDA solvers as well as direct implementations for x86 and ARM CPUs. If you have another framework or instruction set you would like to support, please submit an issue at our Github.

Run a Node

Please see the Run a Node section.