Leap Service#
Launched in 2018, the Leap™ quantum cloud service from D-Wave brings quantum computing to the real world by providing real-time cloud access to our systems.
You use the Leap service to do the following:
Submit problems to D-Wave quantum computers, including hybrid solvers, which use a combination of classical and quantum resources and can accept extremely large problems.
Get started quickly and write your quantum applications using an integrated development environment (IDE) that is compliant with the Development Containers specification, for example, cloud-based GitHub Codespaces.
Run demos and interactive coding examples in Resources.
Get involved in our community of like-minded users.
Administer projects, including managing solvers and users together and setting access to solvers for those users.
Sign up for the Leap service here: https://cloud.dwavesys.com/leap.
Dashboard#
The dashboard is the home for your experience using the Leap service and contains a considerable amount of useful information. For example, you can manage your account settings and see the status of problems you have submitted, usage statistics, solver status, a summary of your account, and your active project and its associated API token.
You might be a member of multiple projects, but the information displayed on the dashboard is only for the active project; for example, the solvers that have been assigned to the active project.
The Leap service supports solvers in multiple regions (for example, North America and Europe). The dashboard displays the solvers that are available by region.
Note
You can make a different project active by selecting your_user_name > Projects > project.
Solvers#
You submit problems to solvers. Solvers are either quantum processing units (QPUs), classical,[1] or hybrid; hybrid solvers use a combination of quantum and classical resources.
Problem Submission and API Tokens#
To submit a problem, an API token is required. Instead of a user name and password, an API token is used to authenticate your client session when it connects to the Leap service. A unique and secure API token is generated for each of your projects, excluding those with the Trial Plan account type,[2] and is available on the dashboard. If your API token is shared or compromised in any way, you should reset it via the dashboard.
To learn about authorizing the Ocean software access to your account in the Leap service and enabling it to store your API token in your development environment, see the Support for IDEs section.
Up to 1000 of your most recent problems are stored and accessible in the Leap service for up to 365 days; if the number of your problems exceeds 1000, the Leap service begins to delete the oldest ones.
Customer Plans and Access to Solvers#
Your customer plan[3] and seat type in a project, together with your customer contract (where applicable), determine your degree of access to solvers; for example, you may not have access to all solvers that are available in the Leap service. You can view your solver access and usage for a project on the dashboard.
Users with limited solver access can submit problems to the solvers in a project while their remaining solver-access time[4] for that project is sufficient.
Support for IDEs#
The Leap service supports third-party integrated development environments (IDEs) that are compliant with the Development Containers specification. Examples of popular, compliant IDEs are cloud-based GitHub Codespaces and locally installed VS Code.
For more information, see the Support for IDEs section.
Administration#
Leap Admin is an easy-to-use cloud-based administration tool.[5] You use Leap Admin to invite users and manage their access to projects in the Leap service, view the status of problems submitted to solvers, troubleshoot submission issues, and generate solver usage reports.
For more information, see the Leap Administration section.
Community, Resources, and Help#
The Leap service has many learning resources available as follows: