open-standards/wai/wai-quantum-desktop

Quantum Studio for the desktop

Quantum Studio as an app. The interface is the browser's. The engine underneath is the quantum job service's engine (wai_quantum::engine), built natively: it uses every core, holds as much memory as the machine has, and works offline.

• Each job runs in a process of its own, this binary run as worker, so a large job cannot take the app's memory with it, and Cancel ends it.
• The worker plans and runs; the app seals. It signs the answer with this user's key, the command line's (~/.config/wai/quantum-key), which never leaves the app.
• Saved jobs and programs go to ~/Documents/Quantum Studio/. wai-quantum verify checks a saved job.
• The job service is one switch away, as in the browser.
• Memory: a job may take $WAI_QUANTUM_MEMORY_GB (16 by default). The plan says when a job needs more.

Building

The app embeds the Studio's build, so build the Studio first:

(cd ../quantum-studio && npm ci && node build.mjs)
cargo build --release                      # add --features metal for the GPU state vector on macOS
./target/release/wai-quantum-desktop       # the app
./target/release/wai-quantum-desktop check # a job through the worker, sealed and verified, with no window

It draws with the operating system's own web view, so the app carries no browser of its own. Installers for macOS, Windows and Linux come from cargo tauri build.