Cloud computing has dramatically shifted how businesses of all sizes approach technology infrastructure and application deployment, primarily by lowering the barriers to entry. Scalable, flexible, and cost-effective, cloud computing has enabled businesses to use powerful computing resources without the need for large upfront investments in hardware and IT.
These advantages are especially significant for businesses exploring emerging technologies like quantum computing. However, while several vendors offer cloud access to quantum systems, their customers cannot always count on the resources being available when needed — largely putting the potential benefits of commercial quantum adoption on hold for many enterprises.
The First and Only Real-Time Quantum Cloud Service with Industry-Standard Data Security Designation for the Full Stack
Launched in 2018, the Leap™ quantum cloud service from D-Wave offers access to our 5000+-qubit Advantage™ annealing quantum computers, along with prototypes of the upcoming Advantage2™ system, and the fast-anneal protocol that allows users to explore coherent annealing quantum computing. Since 2020, the service has also included powerful hybrid solvers enabling problem solving at scale. As a testament to value that these and other features bring to customers, the Leap service has processed over 200 million customer jobs since its launch.
The Leap service operates in real time, meaning that our customers can submit jobs and receive immediate answers: no need for reservations, lengthy queues, or hardware downtime. From the start, D-Wave has made multiple quantum computers available, which means that system maintenance does not interrupt customer access to quantum resources. This level of availability distinguishes us from the competition: with more than 99.9% uptime across all components in the service, our enterprise-grade service-levels agreements (SLAs) are designed to meet the needs of business-critical applications.
Read our most recent announcement about how customers with applications in production can take advantage of SLAs.
Our customers are clearly interested in using the latest technology from D-Wave. For example, since the next-generation Advantage2 prototypes were incorporated into the Leap service — first at a small scale in 2022, and then with a second, larger prototype in 2024 — our customers have run more than 10 million customer jobs on prototype hardware. And they submitted over 4 million jobs using the new fast-anneal protocol in just the first four months of its availability. This strong demand informs our roadmap as we plan the next set of innovations.
In response to the market need for large-scale problem solving, we launched the nonlinear-program hybrid solver in June 2024. This solver enables the Leap service to handle jobs with up to two million variables and constraints, making it ideal for industry-scale applications in areas such as vehicle routing, production scheduling, cargo loading, and workforce scheduling.
Customers have reported that integrating the Leap service into their existing infrastructure is seamless, thanks its simple, flexibile, and user-friendly RESTful API. The service also includes self-administration features, enabling customers to manage users, jobs, and statistics easily, thereby reducing the overhead needed to get work done while enabling them to rely on their current operational workflows.
Features like real-time problem solving, availability and reliability, immediate access to D-Wave’s technological advances, enterprise scalability, and ease-of-use have made the Leap service an ideal choice for tens of thousands of users focused on quantum optimization and research. Furthermore, in 2023, the full-stack service achieved compliance with SOC 2® Type 2, a rigorous data-security standard that sets us apart from others in the quantum computing space.
Analyst Heather West notes in her June 24 IDC Link Report, “D-Wave Quantum: Optimizing the Customer Experience”:
“Access to the technology has been made easy via the development of a point-and-click interface that features multiple quantum-classical hybrid solvers without removing the possibility of programming at other levels of the stack for more advanced developers. For D-Wave Quantum, it’s not just about developing quantum computing technology, but it’s about optimizing the customer experience.” — Heather West, IDC
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According to a Hyperion Research report commissioned by D-Wave, nearly half (48%) of surveyed businesses actively using quantum computing indicated that they are looking to the cloud to support their quantum optimization plans. The research found that for critical workloads, the majority (28%) of respondents require job completion times of an hour or less.
For businesses that need immediate practical quantum benefits today without the need for reservations, long queuing times, or outages, the Leap cloud service delivers business value in a fraction of a second.
Watch my Qubits 2024 presentation to learn why we believe the Leap service is the best choice for organizations that need reliable and secure cloud services to support their quantum-computing workloads.
About D-Wave
D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services, and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing today to benefit business and society. We do this by delivering customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling.
Discover more at dwavequantum.com and begin your quantum journey today.
