Getting Started#

New to Ocean? The following sections describe how to install Ocean tools, what they are and how they fit together, and give examples of using them to solve hard problems on a D-Wave quantum computer.

Initial Set Up#

The following steps set up your development environment for Ocean:

  1. Installing Ocean Tools

    Installation is not needed if you are using an IDE that implements the Development Containers specification (aka “devcontainers”), whether locally on your system (e.g., VS Code) or cloud-based (e.g., GitHub Codespaces), because you can work in an updated Ocean environment through the Ocean Docker file.

  2. Authorizing Access to Leap

    Optionally authorize Ocean to access your Leap account to facilitate token management.

  3. Configuring Access to Leap’s Solvers

    Enable the running problems on D-Wave remote compute resources, including quantum-classical hybrid solvers and the D-Wave quantum processing unit (QPU).

Ocean’s Programming Model#

Learn Ocean software’s workflow for problem solving.

D-Wave Compute Resources#

Use Ocean’s samplers to solve problems on D-Wave’s compute resources (solvers) or locally on your CPU.

Examples#

See how Ocean tools are used with these end-to-end examples.

Because many large, hard problems are best approached with quantum-classical hybrid solvers, a good place to start is with examples of the Beginner-Level Examples: Hybrid Computing section and then learn how to work directly on the quantum computer with examples of the Beginner-Level Examples: Using the QPU section.

Beginner-Level Examples: Hybrid Computing#

Beginner-Level Examples: Using the QPU#

Intermediate-Level Examples#

Advanced-Level Examples#

Additional Examples#

D-Wave’s dwave-examples GitHub repo contains many more code examples:

Further Learning#