How the Alliance works
Bottlenecks, benchmarks, sessions and working groups, and how they connect.
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The Super Research Alliance is problem-first. You don’t need to know quantum physics or a quantum SDK. You bring a computational problem from your own research, described the way you’d describe it to a colleague, and the community helps you find a faster or better way to solve it.
The loop
Most activity follows the same loop:
- Bottleneck. A member posts a problem that is slow, expensive or impossible to compute today.
- Discussion. People in other fields comment with formulations, baselines and similar problems they’ve solved.
- Session. The most-upvoted bottlenecks are run live in the monthly Bring Your Problem session. Fellows’ problems get priority.
- Benchmark. Results are posted as a benchmark that answers the bottleneck, with runtimes, code and a notebook where possible.
What stays here
The Alliance is the community around the problem, not the machine that solves it. Posts, discussion and benchmarks live here; the solving happens wherever you and your collaborators already work. Nothing you post is forwarded anywhere on your behalf.
Describe your problem at the level you would share in a seminar. Keep proprietary data out of the post and say so in the data field — synthetic proxies are usually enough for others to help.
Feeds you control
Your Following feed shows the people you follow, newest first. There is no engagement algorithm deciding what you see. Use Your domains to follow whole research areas, and working groups for focused conversations.
Key points
- Start from your problem, not from the technology.
- Upvotes decide which bottlenecks are run live each month.
- Benchmarks close the loop and are open to everyone.