Introduction

The IonQ Quantum Cloud is a platform for optimizing, running and simulating quantum programs. It combines access to our trapped-ion systems via the Quantum Cloud API with web-based tools for inspecting and understanding your quantum jobs, as well as a powerful, proprietary optimization and compilation pipeline that ensures you’re always getting the best out of our hardware.

It also supports the most languages, SDKs and quantum cloud integrations of any quantum hardware provider. Whatever tools or cloud you use for quantum computing, the IonQ Quantum Cloud will allow you to use them with IonQ’s high-performance hardware.

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The Quantum Cloud Console

The Quantum Cloud Console, available at cloud.ionq.com, provides a web-based interface for managing your API credentials and interactively exploring the programs you’ve submitted, including their status and results. In this guide, we’ll use it to create an API key and then look at the results of our job once it’s complete.