# QC Ware

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'''QC Ware''' is a quantum-computing-as-a-service company based in [Palo Alto, California](/source/Palo_Alto%2C_California).

== History==
QC Ware was founded in 2014 by Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll after Johnson met a group of researchers at [NASA](/source/NASA) Ames interested in quantum computing.<ref name="knappforbes">{{cite web |last1=Knapp |first1=Alex |title=QC Ware Joins The Growing Ranks Of Companies Offering Quantum Cloud Computing Services |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2019/09/27/qc-ware-joins-the-growing-ranks-of-companies-offering-quantum-computing-cloud-services/#4e5f894f7e57 |website=Forbes |access-date=29 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=QC Ware — Quantum Computing Companies |url=https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qc-ware-quantum-computing-companies/ |website=Quantum Zeitgeist |access-date=31 October 2019 |date=16 August 2019 |last1=Explained |first1=Quantumcomputing |archive-date=31 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031211306/https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qc-ware-quantum-computing-companies/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2018, QC Ware was one of the first testers of [Google](/source/Google)'s [Cirq](/source/Cirq) framework, publicly demonstrating an implementation of the [QAOA](/source/Quantum_optimization_algorithms) algorithm on a simulator.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms |url=https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/announcing-cirq-open-source-framework.html |website=Google AI Blog |access-date=29 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Services==
In 2019, QC Ware launched Forge, a [cloud platform](/source/Cloud-based_quantum_computing) that aims to allow developers to run algorithms on hardware provided by multiple vendors.  As of the launch, the platform offered access to a [D-Wave](/source/D-Wave_Systems) quantum computer, but only simulations of Google and [IBM](/source/IBM) machines.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Frederic |first1=Lardinois |title=QC Ware Forge will give developers access to quantum hardware and simulators across vendors |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/qc-ware-forge-will-give-developers-access-to-quantum-hardware-and-simulators-across-vendors/ |website=TechCrunch |date=25 September 2019 |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>

==Q2B conference==
QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference.  The first Q2B was hosted in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=QC Ware Announces Q2B 2019: Practical Quantum Computing Conference December 10 - 12 (Press release) |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qc-ware-announces-q2b-2019-140000805.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029225632/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qc-ware-announces-q2b-2019-140000805.html |archive-date=2019-10-29 |website=finance.yahoo.com |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>

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