Leveraging provider information

So far in this book, we have been specifying which backends to use; however, as you may recall, we have quite a few options to choose from. How can we determine which backend would be optimal to run our circuits? Take, for example, the queue time, how can we determine which backend has the least amount of jobs in the queue? How can we get the status of a job we have running in the background and get regular updates to a specific job? All these questions will be answered in this section, and thankfully for us, there are built-in features that we can use to obtain information about the backend system and the jobs running on them.

Learning about the IBM Quantum Experience components

Each time you open a new Qiskit Notebook on IBM Quantum Experience, you may have noticed that a cell is auto-generated with some standard Qiskit libraries and configuration for your account. The reason it does this is so that you can start coding right away without having...