# About Us

The **JUNIQ Benchmark Suite (JBS)** is an open-source framework dedicated to tracking the performance of quantum processing units (QPUs) on application-driven problems. The project is developed by researchers at the [Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)](https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/jsc) within [Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)](https://www.fz-juelich.de/en), a member of the Helmholtz Association.

## We Are a Research Facility

The JSC operates some of the most powerful computing systems in Europe. Through the [Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ)](https://go.fzj.de/juniq), we provide researchers with unified, user-friendly access to diverse quantum computers alongside classical high-performance computers.

Our core mission is to provide a vendor-agnostic infrastructure to evaluate quantum technology readiness, facilitating long-term progress tracking across different hardware modalities. We focus on real-world utility over abstract synthetic metrics.

## How to Contribute

We welcome and encourage contributions to the JUNIQ Benchmark Suite. Any input is highly valued.
Here are the different ways in which you can get involved:

* **Submit New Benchmarks:** Design and submit new problem generation scripts and validation tests using our standardized templates.
* **Execute and Verify:** Run existing benchmarks on target QPUs and share the performance results to grow our longitudinal analysis archive.
* **Enhance the Framework:** Contribute to our open-source codebase by addressing issues, expanding the CI/CD pipelines, or improving documentation.
* **Provide Feedback:** Open an issue if you encounter bugs or want to request a new feature.

All contributions, source code, and discussions can be found on our Git repository:
[JUNIQ Benchmark Suite Repository](https://go.fzj.de/juniq-benchmark-suite-page)

## Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the support, funding, and hardware access provided by:

  - Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ) 
  - Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
  - Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ)
  - Helmholtz Association
  - German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
  - Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS)
  - EPIQ
  - HPCQS
  - QEC4QEA
  - Q-NEKO
  - AIDAS
  - OpenSuperQPlus
  - QSolid
  - Arque Systems
  - D-Wave
  - eleQtron
  - IQM
  - Pasqal