Application Development Kit for Quantum Network Explorer. Command Line Interface to interact with the Quantum Network Explorer
The QNE-ADK is a Quantum Network Explorer - Application Development Kit that allows you to create your own applications
and experiments and run them on a simulator or real quantum network hardware.
With the ADK you can create your own application from scratch using the qne application create command
(see section ‘Commands’ below for more information about the individual commands). An application directory is created
with all the necessary files for you to configure.
When configuring an application, you specify the different roles and what types of inputs your
application uses. In addition, you write the functionality of your application using the NetQASM library.
After creating and configuring an application, you can create an experiment for it using the qne experiment create
command. A separate experiment directory is created with all the necessary files. When configuring your experiment
you can give values to the inputs that were specified when creating your application. You also choose which channels
and nodes you use in your network and which role is linked to which node. A network consists of channels and each
channel consists of two nodes. The nodes can communicate with each other using the channel between them.
Once your experiment is configured you are ready to run it using the qne experiment run command. Your experiment
is parsed and sent to the NetSquid simulator. After some time your experiment run will be finished and a results
directory will be generated in which all the results of your experiment are stored. An alternative is to use the
qne experiment results command to show the results on screen.
When your application is finished and you want to share it with the world, an application can be uploaded and
published after which it can be selected by other users on the QNE platform. After uploading the application
qne application upload a remote experiment must be created qne experiment create --remote and run
qne experiment run first on the QNE simulator backend successfully before the application can be
published qne application publish. After the application is published successfully, it can be used by others.
For commands interacting with the remote QNE server you must log in first qne login.
Instead of starting from scratch an existing QNE application can be cloned using the qne application clone command.
A copy of a working application is made to your application directory and can be used as starting point
for application development.
To install all the required packages, execute the following command:
pip install qne-adk
After installing the qne-adk, you can install SquidASM. Replace ‘{netsquid-user-name}’ and ‘{netsquid-password}’ with
the credentials you registered on NetSquid:
pip install squidasm --extra-index-url=https://{netsquid-user-name}:{netsquid-password}@pypi.netsquid.org
Now everything should be setup and ready in order to create your own applications and experiments and run them on the
simulator!
The QNE-ADK uses various commands to create and run your applications and experiments. All the commands are listed
below:
qne application list [OPTIONS]
Options:
--remote List remote applications [default: False]
--local List local applications [default: False].
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application list --remote
qne application init [OPTIONS] APPLICATION_NAME
./application_name is taken as application directory
Arguments:
APPLICATION_NAME Name of the application [required]
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application init application_name
qne application create [OPTIONS] APPLICATION_NAME ROLES...
Arguments:
APPLICATION_NAME Name of the application [required]
ROLES... Names of the roles to be created [required]
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application create my_application Alice Bob
qne application clone [OPTIONS] APPLICATION_NAME [NEW_APPLICATION_NAME]
Arguments:
APPLICATION_NAME Name of the application to clone [required]
[NEW_APPLICATION_NAME] New name for the cloned application
Options:
--remote Clone remote application [default: False]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application clone existing_application new_application
qne application fetch [OPTIONS] APPLICATION_NAME
Arguments:
APPLICATION_NAME Name of the application to fetch [required]
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application fetch existing_application
qne application delete [OPTIONS] [APPLICATION_NAME]
When application_name is given ./application_name is taken as application
directory, when this directory does not contain an application the
application directory is fetched from the application configuration. When
application_name is not given, the current directory is taken as
application directory.
Arguments:
[APPLICATION_NAME] Name of the application
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application delete application_name
qne application validate [OPTIONS] [APPLICATION_NAME]
When application_name is given ./application_name is taken as application
directory, when this directory does not contain an application the
application directory is fetched from the application configuration. When
application_name is not given, the current directory is taken as
application directory.
Arguments:
[APPLICATION_NAME] Name of the application
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application validate application_name
qne application upload [OPTIONS] [APPLICATION_NAME]
When application_name is given ./application_name is taken as application
directory, when this directory does not contain an application the
application directory is fetched from the application configuration. When
application_name is not given, the current directory is taken as
application directory.
Arguments:
[APPLICATION_NAME] Name of the application
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application upload application_name
qne application publish [OPTIONS] [APPLICATION_NAME]
When application_name is given ./application_name is taken as application
directory, when this directory does not contain an application the
application directory is fetched from the application configuration. When
application_name is not given, the current directory is taken as
application directory.
Arguments:
[APPLICATION_NAME] Name of the application
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne application publish application_name
qne experiment list [OPTIONS]
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne experiment list
qne experiment create [OPTIONS] EXPERIMENT_NAME APPLICATION_NAME NETWORK_NAME
Arguments:
EXPERIMENT_NAME Name of the experiment. [required]
APPLICATION_NAME Name of the application. [required]
NETWORK_NAME Name of the network to be used. [required]
Options:
--remote Use remote application configuration [default: False]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne experiment create experiment_name application_name europe
qne experiment delete [OPTIONS] [EXPERIMENT_NAME]
Local: When deleting an experiment locally, argument EXPERIMENT_NAME_OR_ID
is the local experiment name, which is the subdirectory containing the
experiment files. When the argument is empty the current directory is
taken as experiment directory. The local experiment files are deleted,
when the experiment was created with '--remote' and the experiment was run
remotely, the remote experiment is also deleted.
Remote: the argument EXPERIMENT_NAME_OR_ID is the remote experiment id to
delete. No local files are deleted.
Arguments:
[EXPERIMENT_NAME_OR_ID] Name of the experiment or remote id
Options:
--remote Delete a remote experiment [default: False]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne experiment delete experiment_name
qne experiment validate [OPTIONS] [EXPERIMENT_NAME]
When experiment_name is given ./experiment_name is taken as experiment directory.
When experiment_name is not given, the current directory is taken as experiment
directory.
Arguments:
[EXPERIMENT_NAME] Name of the experiment
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne experiment validate experiment_name
qne experiment run [OPTIONS] [EXPERIMENT_NAME]
When experiment_name is given ./experiment_name is taken as experiment directory.
When experiment_name is not given, the current directory is taken as experiment
directory.
Block (remote experiment runs only) waits for the experiment to finish before
returning (and results are available). Local experiment runs are blocked by default.
Timeout (optional) limits the wait (in seconds) for a blocked experiment to finish.
In case of a local experiment, a timeout will cancel the experiment run. A remote
experiment run is not canceled after a timeout and results can be fetched at a later
moment.
Arguments:
[EXPERIMENT_NAME] Name of the experiment
Options:
--block Wait for the (remote) experiment to finish. [default: False]
--timeout Limit the wait for a blocked experiment to finish (in seconds).
[default: no timeout]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne experiment run --block --timeout=30 experiment_name
qne experiment results [OPTIONS] [EXPERIMENT_NAME]
When experiment_name is given ./experiment_name is taken as experiment directory.
When experiment_name is not given, the current directory is taken as experiment
directory.
Arguments:
[EXPERIMENT_NAME] Name of the experiment
Options:
--all Get all results for this experiment. [default: False]
--show Show the results on screen instead of saving to file. [default:
False]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne experiment results experiment_name
qne login [OPTIONS] [HOST]
Arguments:
[HOST] Name of the host to log in to
Options:
--email TEXT Email of the remote user [required]
--password TEXT Password of the remote user [required]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne login [email protected] --password=my_password https://api.quantum-network.com
qne logout [OPTIONS] [HOST]
Arguments:
[HOST] Name of the host to log out from
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne logout https://api.quantum-network.com
qne network list [OPTIONS]
Options:
--remote List remote networks [default: False]
--local List local networks [default: True]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne network list --remote
qne network update [OPTIONS]
Options:
--overwrite Overwrite local networks [default: False]
--help Show this message and exit.
Example:
qne network update --overwrite
More documentation about these commands and about the files that are generated can be found in the QNE-ADK user guide on the Quantum Network Explorer knowledge base.