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I'd like each of my students to run at least one program (however trivial) on a real quantum computer. They can each sign up for accounts on ibm-q-experience. The question is, which of the backends are real and which are simulations? I see the word "simulation" in some of their names. Does that mean that any backend without the word "simulation" in its name is a real quantum computer?

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The online simulator is called the ibmq_qasm_simulator, all other devices with city names, e.g. ibmq_vigo, are real quantum devices.

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