Microsoft Azure Adds Compatibility with Qiskit and Cirq SDKs

Previously, anyone wishing to use the Microsoft Azure quantum cloud service to access the Honeywell and IonQ quantum computers needed to use Microsoft's Q# quantum programming language for writing their programs. Now Microsoft has written an API so that user's existing Qiskit or Cirq programs can add a few lines of code and run their programs on the Honeywell or IonQ systems using the Azure cloud service. This will expand the potential user community for Microsoft and provide users with a greater choice of hardware providers for developing and testing their programs. You can view Microsoft's announcement about this development in a blog article on their website here.

October 7, 2021