MindQuantum Installation

Confirming System Environment Information

• The hardware platform should be Linux CPU with avx supported.
• Refer to MindQuantum Installation Guide, install MindSpore, version 1.2.0 or later is required.
• See setup.py for the remaining dependencies.

Installation Methods

You can install MindInsight either by pip or by source code.

Install by pip

pip install https://ms-release.obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com/{version}/MindQuantum/any/mindquantum-{version}-py3-none-any.whl --trusted-host ms-release.obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple

• When the network is connected, dependency items are automatically downloaded during .whl package installation. (For details about other dependency items, see setup.py). In other cases, you need to manually install dependency items.
• {version} denotes the version of MindQuantum. For example, when you are downloading MindQuantum 0.2.0, {version} should be 1.3.0.

Install by Source Code

1.Download Source Code from Gitee

cd ~
git clone https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindquantum.git -b r0.2

2.Compiling MindQuantum

cd ~/mindquantum
python setup.py install --user

Verifying Successful Installation

Successfully installed, if there is no error message such as No module named 'mindquantum' when execute the following command:

python -c 'import mindquantum'

Install with Docker

Mac or Windows users can install MindQuantum through Docker. Please refer to Docker installation guide.

Note

Please set the parallel core number before running MindQuantum scripts. For example, if you want to set the parallel core number to 4, please run the command below:

export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4

For large servers, please set the number of parallel kernels appropriately according to the size of the model to achieve optimal results.