What does a supercomputer center do when it’s operating two systems among the TOP-10 most powerful in the world — one of them the first system to cross the exascale milestone? It starts planning its successor. The center is Oak Ridge National Lab, a U.S. Department….
@HPCpodcast: Matt Sieger of OLCF-6 on the Post-Exascale ‘Discovery’ Vision
March 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
PINQ² and Hydro Québec Form Partnership Utilizing IBM Quantum
March 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Montreal, March 25 th, 2024 — Hydro Québec is now a partner of the Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ²). As the administrator of Canada’s first IBM Quantum System One located at IBM ’s facility in Bromont, Quebec, PINQ² offers an innovative approach to computing for companies wishing to conduct research , […]
LBNL Researchers to Be Presented Hans Meuer Award at ISC 2024
March 22, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Hamburg, Germany, March 22 – This year’s Hans Meuer Award recipients are a team of five researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for their evaluation of the classical HPC hardware requirements for large-scale quantum computations. The Hans Meuer Award is an annual award presented at ISC High Performance. It recognizes the most outstanding research paper […]
Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration
February 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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
February 22, 2024 by
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
February 20, 2024 by
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
February 18, 2024 by
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
February 14, 2024 by
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
February 14, 2024 by
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
February 14, 2024 by
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 […]
