Quantum News Nexus

The SC25 supercomputing conference is happening this week in St. Louis, Missouri, as has been the case with the last two or three of these events, there is quite a bit of quantum news breaking at the conference. Here’s a sampling of the headlines so far:

Nvidia, hot off the unveiling of NVQLink to interconnect GPUs and QPUs in supercomputing centers, announced that in addition to the nine US supercomputing centers already lined up to use NVQLink, there are now several centers in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East that collaborated on the development of NVQLink technology, and are poised to use it.

Nvidia listed six such partners in the Asia-Pacific region, including:

• Japan’s Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI technology (G-QuAT) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
• Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science
• Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
• Taiwan’s National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC)
• Singapore’s National Quantum Computing Hub (a joint initiative of Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing and National Supercomputing Centre Singapore)
• Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

And nine more in Europe and the Middle East, counting:

• CINECA – Italy
• DCAI, operator of Denmark’s AI Supercomputer
• France’s Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI)
• The Czech Republic’s IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (IT4I)
• Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
• The U.K.’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)
• Poland’s Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PCSS)
• Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
• Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

More news: QuEra Computing and Dell Technologies announced an “experimental prototype”  demonstration at SC25 showcasing how QuEra can leverage Dell’s high-performance computing (HPC) technologies to seamlessly integrate QPUs into mainstream data center architectures to support hybrid quantum-classical computing. QuEra said the demonstration validates its quantum processors as “first-class compute peers in HPC environments,” adding that it also provides “a concrete benchmark for how QPUs can be integrated into existing infrastructure with minimal disruption.”

The demonstration features Dell HPC infrastructure and the Dell Quantum Intelligent Orchestrator (QIO) integrated with QuEra’s neutral-atom quantum system, highlighting how quantum can join CPUs and GPUs as an accelerator of classical resources within HPC environments. The equipment is hosted at QuEra’s Boston facilities. This installation includes a Dell-based HPC mini-cluster with Dell PowerEdge servers with Nvidia GPUs, Dell networking equipment and the Dell Quantum Intelligent Orchestrator (QIO) orchestration platform, running directly alongside QuEra’s systems.

And still more news: Classiq, which last week announced funding from AMD, Qualcomm, IonQ, and more, is announcing at SC25 that its software platform is available on AWS Marketplace. The new listing lets enterprises build or scale their quantum computing capabilities by purchasing with existing AWS budgets and credits. The Classiq platform will also be featured at the AWS booth at the upcoming SC25 Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.

And a few more quick headlines and links:

• Quantum Computing, Inc., unveils Nuerawave photonics-based reservoir computer.
• D-Wave Quantum highlights quantum-HPC integration, customer use cases, and more.
• Quantinuum will have quantum hardware on hand, including a replica Helios system and its new Helios chip.

I’ll post more news from SC25 as it becomes available.

Quantum News Nexus is a new site from freelance writer and editor Dan O’Shea that covers quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum networking, quantum-safe security, and more. You can find him on X @QuantumNewsGuy and doshea14@gmail.com.