11.7 The software stack and access

One way of accessing a quantum computing system looks like this:

• You have downloaded and installed software development tools like the Qiskit open source quantum computing framework to your laptop or workstation. [24]
• You develop your quantum code in a programmer’s editor or a Jupyter^TM notebook. [23]

• When run, part of your application connects to a quantum simulator on your computer or remotely to real quantum hardware or a simulator.
• The remote connection is via the Internet/cloud.
• Your application invokes one or more processes that runs on the quantum hardware or a simulator.
• Ultimately, your application makes use of the results of the quantum computation and does something valuable within your use case.

There are at least two other similar scenarios:

1. Instead of developing locally, you do so via a web browser-based...