Assigning a device

We can assign various devices available in Amazon Braket, however, each device uses different resources. The local simulator uses the local computer resources to execute the circuit if using a remote connection.The Amazon Braket simulators TN1 and SV1 use Amazon resources. External quantum devices such those available from D-Wave, IonQ, or Rigetti use compute time on the quantum hardware housed at the respective facilities of these providers in Barnaby, Maryland, or California respectively.

Each type of device has a limit in terms of the number of qubits, the amount of circuit information it can handle, and in some cases, the depth of the circuit that it can execute. The circuit depth can be thought of as the number of columns of gate after the circuit has been converted into its low-level transpiled version. This is the version where all the gates on each qubit are packed together, as much as is feasible, using native gate operations on the hardware. Native...