During the period covered by this proposal, we expect to generate modest amounts of Intellectual Property (IP) and digital data related to encoding results of calculations performed on classical and quantum computing devices (both intermediate states and final calculations).
We expect the total amount of digital data to not exceed a few GBs, and be in the form of unformatted files, or in SQLite or hdf5 databases. All digital data appearing in publications and/or on the arXiv will be made available in associated supplemental material and/or on a website operated by the project PI that will be linked to the article, consistent with conditions of publication.
Computer codes used to analyze related digital data, to arrive at final results that appear in publications, will be made public at the discretion of the project PI or all of the relevant authors of the code. All quantum algorithms and IP created during the period covered by this proposal will be described in detail in publications and/or on the arXiv to facilitate the necessary independent reproduction and verification by other researchers. Computer codes used to implement such algorithms will be made public at the discretion of the project PI or all of the relevant authors of the code.
The project PI will be responsible for the preservation of all codes and digital data created during the period covered by this proposal. We anticipate that multiple copies of codes and digital data will be regular generated and stored in geographically separated locations, primarily on computers at the four Hub institutions, INT/UW, MIT, LANL and ORNL. By being part of this proposal, the scientists involved in this project at these Hub institutions have agreed to handle the associated IP and digital data in a way consistent with this Data and IP Management Plan (DIPMP).
Any and all access to IP and digital data associated with this project located at DOE operated computational facilities must be cleared by the project PI. We expect the DOE to transmit this DIPMP to compute facilities located at national laboratories so that digital data and other IP associated with this project are secured in a way consistent with this DIPMP, which appears to be stricter than generic user agreements at such facilities.