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My main use case for D-Wave Leap was to get access to their quantum annealing platforms, and I used that trying to write an optimization for a flight rescheduling POS system for an airline.

To approach the optimization problem for the flight rescheduling POS system using D-Wave Leap, the process involved writing a QUBO for the flight optimization, which took into account all of the restrictions that were needed by the airline. After that, it was as simple as feeding the problem into D-Wave Leap and then waiting for a result.

Everything was pretty straightforward. D-Wave Leap had a really nice API so I could make the call directly within either my code or through my terminal, which was pretty easy. Overall, I would recommend D-Wave Leap.

If I were working for a company with logistical issues, it would definitely be useful to see if annealing approaches returned a better optimization than classical approaches.

In my opinion, the best features D-Wave Leap offers include a really good API call, which makes it really simple and easy to use their systems.

What made the API stand out for me was a good mix of both the documentation being pretty straightforward and the fact that I never really had to reference it much as it was a pretty straightforward call to use, especially after using D-Wave Leap and going through their educational course. The calls were pretty standard.

There are small things that could improve D-Wave Leap. Sometimes it was a little troubling to log in, and it would kick me out after not being logged in for a while. Making that easier and then making the UI a little more friendly and easy to navigate would be good improvements.

The reason I would rate it a nine is that the only thing that made me take off one point is that sometimes I ran into a couple of bugs while trying to run it. The system needed very specific input, which was a little tedious to figure out. But other than that, it worked pretty well, and I was happy with the results.

I used D-Wave Leap for about a month and a half while taking a course that they offered on quantum programming.

In my experience, D-Wave Leap is stable, though I did have a few bugs every now and then. For the most part, I did not notice any downtime in their cloud compute while I was using it, so I would rate it pretty stable.

Regarding D-Wave Leap's scalability, I did not use it to scale, but I would imagine that their scalability depends on their machine uptime.

My experience with customer support for D-Wave Leap was pretty good. It was pretty easy to get a hold of them to get new tokens and other things, although my interactions were very limited.

Based on my very limited experience, I would rate customer support a ten.

I did not personally use different solutions, but their statistics were returned to me in order to use for benchmarking.

I have seen a return on investment with D-Wave Leap. During my experience with it, which mainly involved their annealing platform, I did see that for some problems, it had great time benefits and was faster than classical authorization techniques. However, it really depends on the problem. In regards to savings, time saved is probably the biggest one. Money saved sometimes occurs when it finds better solutions than classical approaches. However, it is very context dependent, so it is hard to say what works for one organization as that might not work for another.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing related to D-Wave Leap was that everything was handled by the university, so I did not have to look at that. However, to my knowledge, they charge per shot and per amount of times that I use it through tokens, but I am not sure how much tokens cost.

When I was using it, I was using it to study quantum annealing and see what kind of benefits it may have, and D-Wave is the only quantum annealing platform, so I did not use anything else.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate D-Wave Leap a nine out of ten.

In my current organization, I did not use D-Wave Leap, but I did use it during my time at a university, and it was deployed through the private cloud.

My advice for others reading reviews looking into using D-Wave Leap is to read the documentation or educate yourself on quantum annealing. Once you understand what quantum annealing is, the only real issue I see going into it is maybe documentation, which would be pretty easy to figure out.

My main use case for D-Wave Leap is to compare it to machine learning, so I was looking for use cases in the genetic genomics area mainly and I wanted to test the potential of the tool in terms of knowing which leverages or features influence more the output of different medical cases.

A quick, specific example of how I use D-Wave Leap for that comparison in a genomic scenario is that I have more than 100 machine learning models in production right now, with all the features, validations, evaluations, and everything. I simply check and use D-Wave Leap as a contrafactual, as another tool to see if I get the same results, and the most important thing for me is explainability. I want to know if the output is the same, which in most cases it is, but it changed the view of the features that have more weight in those outputs, and in many genomic diseases I have compared more than 10 machine learning models versus D-Wave Leap.

D-Wave Leap has impacted my organization positively, although I really choose the tools that we use. In this case, D-Wave Leap was an exploration I did by myself that I do not pass on to my team because the settings and use cases in our specific case, which is genomics, were not really clear, so we did not adopt the technology.

Since D-Wave Leap was not adopted by my team, I noticed personal benefits, where the main thing that came to my mind was the computational power and speed, allowing many experiments or models running at the same time. I think this is a main point for companies that want to develop different experiments in life sciences, and that is perhaps a change of paradigm.

The best feature that D-Wave Leap offers in my experience is computational power; that is why I initially tried it, and in that sense, it is great, but I think usability is the weakest part in my opinion.

Regarding computation power as a standout feature, D-Wave Leap has helped me with speed and handling complex data sets. I was really happy with the machine learning tools timeline since I start real computation and comparing different machine learning models. When I saw D-Wave Leap's speed in computation, it is much faster, making it the beauty of D-Wave Leap. Once everything is set, it could be really helpful, and explainability is also a little bit different from what I am using in machine learning and for life sciences, I think that is the most important part for me.

Regarding D-Wave Leap's AI capabilities, I think it has taken care of governance and security, which is a key part, especially in life science. Right now, it is a basic feature, so I see that it is covered, and it is okay.

I think that is the same situation that happened with AWS for machine learning, where you have to set up a complex environment and sometimes you give up, needing something that is ready to go and plug and play. That is the main barrier for using D-Wave Leap in my case.

D-Wave Leap can be improved in setup and usability. I did the courses available on your website, and for a scientist, especially in life science, we need to understand what the tool does and how it works since we do not appreciate black boxes. Maybe that could be improved, as you have done a good job explaining your tool, but it could be more specific and less in development.

Regarding improvements around documentation, support, or other aspects of D-Wave Leap, maybe it is understanding that quantum computing for the general population is still far from being a reality. Understanding what you are trying to do is crucial, so it is about perfecting the documentation and clarifying the future outcomes.

The accuracy and reliability of outputs from D-Wave Leap have me feeling uncertain. While I understand the core, I have doubts in some cases about the calculations and the science behind them, which is why I gave it a seven, wanting a deep knowledge of what is in the core and engine of the tool.

Those are the main drawbacks for D-Wave Leap.

I knew about D-Wave Leap approximately 10 years ago, but I am more focused on machine learning, so I was interested. I have been using it in this period of 10 years, but not with the same intensity as some machine learning tools, but approximately five years in total.

D-Wave Leap is stable in my experience, functioning really well and everything, so I think it is a great product.

As for scalability, we need to do big integrations with hospitals and different healthcare and life science actors, but we have not tried it on a larger scale. I was trying it at a small scale by myself, and while we have not tried API connections yet, it seems ready.

The customer support of D-Wave Leap was efficient. I just had to use it for a little issue about the password, and it was fast and secure, everything was fine.

I would rate the customer support a nine.

D-Wave Leap was the first tool I knew and it seemed to be the one I wanted to use, but right now it is not exactly what we need, and maybe in the future it will be.

My main concern is the preliminary setting of the environment where I have to work, whereas in machine learning I directly start with the tool and start with the computation, calculations, and even data wrangling. With D-Wave Leap, I have to set up a certain environment that I think is a little bit rough and you lose some focus and time.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was all good because it was a long time ago, where there were really good offers, encouraging people to try it, and in that case, everything was smooth.

Before choosing D-Wave Leap, I did not evaluate other options, as I directly knew who was behind it, making it my first and only choice.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate D-Wave Leap a seven.

I give it a seven because the computation is really good, with great speed and time for analyzing and running models and calculations, but I do not go to 8, 9, or 10 because of the issues I already explained, such as setting up and really understanding the core and engine of the tool, which I believe is still in development and will become a great tool over time.

As for how D-Wave Leap is deployed in our organization, we have a private cloud and have changed different providers, but we have a private cloud, and for some specific projects, we have on-premise as well.

For our private cloud, we use AWS, and another part of the company uses Microsoft.

I would advise others looking into using D-Wave Leap to have clearly defined use cases and determine if they need real computational power, as that is when they would find D-Wave Leap really useful. If not, they might find a tool that is not for them.

I was using the hybrid quantum computer from D-Wave Leap for solving big and complex QUBO tasks.

I did not utilize D-Wave Leap's Hybrid Solver Service as I was working in code mostly.

I integrated the Ocean SDK in my workflow, though I do not remember the exact details of what we were using it for.

I would describe the benefits of using D-Wave Leap for optimizing supply chain operations by saying we had no such tasks.

I did not use the machine learning enhancements in D-Wave Leap.

What I appreciate about D-Wave Leap is that it is very easy to use. On Python, it is straightforward and easy to understand how to use, and easy to modify anything.

The key benefits that D-Wave brings to the table really help to structure everything and make for better organization. I was working with it from the start, so I cannot imagine how it would be without it, but without it, it would have been much harder to have an easy and organized scheme of the code and of the project.

The only problem that I encountered with D-Wave Leap is that you must send a whole task in one object. I understand that this was not the first priority for them, and I hope one day they will change this or provide documentation about the maximum object size, because my personal problem was that my QUBO task was about 500 gigabytes, and it is impossible to make 500 gigabytes as one object for computers since it is a QUBO task. However, it should be easy to divide a QUBO task into multiple objects.

Apart from the object and task constraints that I mentioned, I really enjoyed using D-Wave Leap and quantum computers. This was the only issue I could identify because my task was very large.

The course I received was not very informative because it covered basic computing concepts that one can learn in an hour through online resources.

I have been working with D-Wave Leap for about a year and a half.

Currently, I am not working with D-Wave Leap because I am waiting for my project to be approved, but I worked with it previously on a startup.

My experience with D-Wave Leap was about half a year ago.

I had a question for the technical support team at D-Wave Leap, and they answered me in approximately an hour, so it was very fast. I had a technical question about how large of tasks the model can accept, and the response was fast and included information that was not available on the website.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate the technical support of D-Wave Leap 100 out of 100 because it was excellent.

Prior to adopting D-Wave Leap, I have no experience working with any other solutions of the same kind.

The deployment part of the initial setup took approximately 10 minutes to wait until the computing would be completed on the quantum computer and on the hybrid computer. There was always some queue, but it was acceptable. At one point, we discovered that it was better to run the processes at night, and this became easier and faster.

I do not have information about the pricing, setup cost, or licensing aspects of D-Wave Leap, as my company paid for it. The only thing I received was a course from D-Wave, which I believe was for Leap 2, about quantum computing. The course was not very informative, but I now have a certificate.

We purchased everything from D-Wave directly.

Given my experience working with D-Wave Leap, I do not have any specific advice or recommendation that I can share with other organizations considering D-Wave Leap. If they are considering D-Wave Leap, they need it for their project, and for using D-Wave Leap, it is better to use the best libraries and programs to work faster.

I would rate my overall experience with D-Wave Leap at 9.5 out of 10.

I chose to use D-Wave Leap for classifying post-COVID problems because of university support.

I normally want to apply it in machine learning as generative AI, but currently, I'm still not sure which application I can use because I only have twenty minutes per month and need to make sure the dataset is small enough for D-Wave Leap.

What stands out to me about the optimization feature is that it utilizes quantum annealing, which I believe is better than simulated annealing or tabu search. That is why I selected this option, although I remain uncertain about its superiority in the future.

Regarding D-Wave Leap's AI accuracy and reliability, it can track back and recheck using their energy output, so I can trust the results based on the energy, which is satisfactory.

Regarding D-Wave Leap's AI governance and security, I think the security is good, but it is very difficult to select the right key since I keep renewing it and have many keys in the system. I am unsure which one to use.

As far as I know, Florida Atlantic University provides D-Wave Leap computing inside the university, so I am uncertain if this is a public cloud or private cloud.

My advice for others looking into using D-Wave Leap is that if you want to solve optimization problems, selecting D-Wave Leap is a good option. Otherwise, you can use other methods such as AI calculations, machine learning, or mathematical optimization, as D-Wave Leap is still a small computation machine and high-priced. My overall rating for D-Wave Leap is nine out of ten.