Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration

Riverlane and Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to explore the challenges of integrating a quantum computer with a large-scale, supercomputing centre.  Quantum computers will play an important role in the future of computing as they promise to solve problems […]

IonQ Achieves Ion-Photon Entanglement for Quantum Networks

COLLEGE PARK, MD – February 22, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced it has generated photons entangled with ions repeatedly and reproducibly, creating a quantum state which allows future quantum systems to communicate and transfer information between each other. This achievement marks the first known commercial demonstration of ion-photon entanglement outside […]

IQM Quantum Reports Benchmarks on 20-Qubit System 

Espoo, Finland, 20th February 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers  announced it has achieved its latest benchmarks measured on its 20-qubit quantum computer.   Among the system-level benchmarks IQM obtained:  Quantum Volume (QV) of 2^5=32  Circuit Layer Operations Per Second (CLOPS) of 2600  20-qubit GHZ state with fidelity greater than 0.5   Q-score of 11  Quantum volume (QV) is a benchmark that […]

Pawsey Adds NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform for R&D Simulations

SYDNEY—SCA2024—Feb. 19, 2024—NVIDIA today announced that Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum platform accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub, in support of its quantum R&D work. Researchers at the Perth-based center will leverage CUDA Quantum — an open-source hybrid quantum computing […]

EuroHPC JU Issues Procurement Call for LUMI-Quantum

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for tender for the installation of LUMI-Q, a new EuroHPC quantum computer to be located in Czechia and integrated into the EuroHPC supercomputer KAROLINA. EuroHPC JU said LUMI-Q will be a digital quantum computer….

IQM Quantum Announces Co-CEO  

Espoo, Finland, 14th February 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers announced it is implementing a dual leadership structure, appointing two Co-CEOs.    Former sole CEO and Co-founder Dr. Jan Goetz will lead external relations and fundraising, while Dr. Mikko Välimäki will focus on enterprise commercial operations. Together, Goetz and Välimäki will execute IQM’s strategy going forward. They are based in IQM’s corporate headquarters in Espoo, Finland.  When founding IQM […]

Quantum: PASQAL Announces New Chairman, Deputy CEO

PARIS – February 13, 2024 — PASQAL, a company focused on neutral atoms quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Wasiq Bokhari as chairman of its board of directors, the promotion of Loïc Henriet to Deputy CEO and the creation of separate hardware and software divisions. With over 20 years of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate […]

IonQ and South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan Univ. Renew Quantum Alliance

Feb. 13, 2024, COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the renewal of its alliance with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) to provide researchers and academics with continued access to IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum systems. Accessible through SKKU’s Q Center, users across South Korea have benefited from hands-on training and mentorship provided by […]

D-Wave Announces Availability of 1,200+ Qubit Advantage2 Prototype

PALO ALTO, Calif., BURNABY, B.C., — February 12, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) has announced that the 1,200+ qubit Advantage2 prototype is now available via the company’s Leap real-time quantum cloud service. Customers with Leap service subscriptions can access the new Advantage2 prototype today, and those new to the Leap service […]

QuEra to Build Quantum Testbed in UK

BOSTON, February 5th, 2024 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing has announced that the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) at Harwell, Oxfordshire, will be home to a quantum computing testbed. Funded through the NQCC, and supported by the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) framework, one of the testbeds will be built by QuEra in […]