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How It Works

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The Strangeworks Portal​

The Strangeworks Portal is your gateway to the world of quantum computing. It serves as a central hub where you can access a wide range of quantum computing resources, tools, and services.

Workspaces​

You start with a personal workspace (Except if you were invited to one, in which case we don't create one by default).

  • Workspaces can be great for collaboration with a team, or to keep project data and billing separate.
  • Data is never shared between workspaces.
  • A premium plan or membership into our backstage pass program is required in order to create multiple Workspaces. Contact us!
  • For premium accounts, administrators may invite collaborators and control their access to resources and spending.

Products & Catalog​

The Strangeworks platform comes loaded with many different (and useful? 😅) products, and we're constantly adding new ones.

  • Most applications are free/included — you just pay for compute usage.
  • In order to use a product, you must “activate” it. This creates a Resource you can call.
  • We also support creating custom/bespoke products. If you're looking for something more custom contact us!

Compute Providers​

Click onto the backends view for an ever-growing list of all of the popular quantum hardware, simulators, and non-traditional compute providers.

Managed Applications​

Our Product Library lists our fully-managed applications to help you harness quantum computing in an approachable and user-friendly way.

Tools & Frameworks​

Tools and frameworks that can be used within the Strangeworks ecosystem to make your job easier. (or something)

Resources​

You can think of “Resources” as “instances” of a product.

  • You'll always submit jobs to a Resource
  • Whoever has access to a Resource can view its jobs
  • It is common to have a single activated Resource per product. However, you may want to create additional Resources to segment your jobs – projects, provider accounts, etc.

Backends​

Backends represent different types of compute resources available in the Strangeworks ecosystem, including quantum QPUs, simulators, optimization solvers, and more.

  • Each compute provider may offer multiple backends for different purposes.
  • The documentation for each product will provide instructions on how to use these backends.
  • You can explore the available optimization provider backends in the Optimization Provider Backends section and quantum backends in the Quantum Backends section.

Jobs​

When calling an endpoint/function on a Resource, a Job may be created.

  • These jobs can be found on the main Jobs page or on the associated Resource page.
  • Each job includes information about the job, as well as any associated files or data that was generated.
  • Many types of data include useful visualizations. (And more visualizations are added frequently.)

SDKs​

While all Products may be called by the API (more documentation to come), it's typical within the Quantum Computing field to use Python. To that end, we have a few useful Python libraries and SDKs to utilize in the navigation.

Billing & Credits​

Each workspace may have an associated billing account.

  • A billing account may be created by:
    • Linking a credit card
    • Talking with sales
    • Getting credit through backstage pass
  • For each paid action in the system, a billing line item will be created which will deduct from your billing account.
  • A workspace administrator may set an overall spending limit for the workspace, or for individual members.