# Does Pennylane-SF Plugin simmulate Borealis

**URL:** <https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/does-pennylane-sf-plugin-simmulate-borealis/2053>\
**Category:** Borealis\
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/does-pennylane-sf-plugin-simmulate-borealis/2053 "2022-07-20T10:03:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/does-pennylane-sf-plugin-simmulate-borealis/2053/4 "2022-07-22T00:16:06Z")

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Hi @PhilippHS,

You could use either device and only use the gates allowed by the hardware as specified in the [Device details section](https://strawberryfields.ai/photonics/demos/tutorial_X8.html#device-details) of our X8 tutorial. You will still get differences due to loss and other problems as you can see in [this thread](http://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/getting-x8-photon-count-data-to-agree-with-numerical-prediction-for-beamsplitter-phase-sweep/1530). I would actually be curious to know the outputs that you get by running a program on the Gaussian backend vs the Fock backend, given that you have an X8-compatible circuit in both cases.

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