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Update calibration-jobs.mdx to reflect updates in calibration strategy

Open andrehche opened this issue 2 months ago • 5 comments

andrehche avatar Nov 03 '25 19:11 andrehche

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qiskit-bot avatar Nov 03 '25 19:11 qiskit-bot

Thank you very much @andrehche! Are you good with my suggested rewrite of the first paragraph? If so, I'll commit that change and approve the PR.

abbycross avatar Nov 03 '25 21:11 abbycross

The section on Multiple circuits in the same job is incorrect. If you submit a large job, it may get divided into smaller jobs and thus interleave with cal jobs. We can fix it in this PR or a separate one.

Also we can probably remove the cal time on smaller device (5-7 qubits). It's been a long time since we've had devices that small (on production) 😁.

jyu00 avatar Nov 04 '25 16:11 jyu00

Also it sounds like we don't do daily cal anymore. So this section should also be updated:

How long do calibration jobs run for? We run both daily and hourly calibration jobs. Daily calibrations on a smaller device (5-7 qubits) may take about 30 minutes, while for larger devices (7+ qubits) they could take about 90 minutes. The hourly calibrations run for about 2-3 minutes each hour.

jyu00 avatar Nov 04 '25 18:11 jyu00

@jyu00 Thanks for the catch. I'll update that too.

andrehche avatar Nov 04 '25 18:11 andrehche

Hi @andrehche - This is looking good! Is there any way I can help get it finished up so it can be merged?

beckykd avatar Dec 08 '25 19:12 beckykd

beckykd thanks for the nudge -- still waiting on some internal feedback on this version, so I think we will have some revisions, will update here.

andrehche avatar Dec 09 '25 15:12 andrehche