11.7 The software stack and access

One way of accessing a quantum computing system looks like this: Jupyter notebook software stack

1. You download and install software development tools such as the Cirq or Qiskit open-source quantum computing framework to your laptop or workstation. 42 181
2. You develop your quantum code in a programmer’s editor or a Jupyter^TM notebook. 174
3. When run, part of your application connects to a quantum simulator on your computer or remotely to a simulator or quantum hardware.
4. The remote connection is via the internet/cloud.
5. Your application invokes one or more processes that run on the quantum hardware or a simulator.
6. Ultimately, your application uses the results of the quantum computation and does something valuable within your use case.

There are at least two other similar scenarios:

• Instead of developing locally, you use a web browser-based...