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QuEra Computing announced with HPE a plan to integrate neutral-atom, fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) with on-premise high-performance computing environments, an announcement that comes as QuEra already is seeing its gear deployed in supercomputing centers in Japan and elsewhere.

The news also comes after QuEra said back in June it would bring an FTQC to the cloud in 2028 via Amazon Braket. That timeline goal is a year to two years more aggressive than most companies have been talking about. The same month that QuEra made that announcement. HPE announced expanded collaborations with eight quantum computing companies, including QuEra, “with the goal of building out a full-stack hybrid quantum supercomputing platform.”

QuEra’s neutral-atom systems will be matched with the HPE Cray supercomputing platform in a plan to target HPE environments and supercomputing centers run by research intuitions and the like to further hybrid quantum-classical applications. The partners did not announce specific timing for such deployments.

What this teaming means is that organizations that want to use QuEra’s systems now will have a choice to do so through the cloud or by deploying a QuEra-HPE hybrid infrastructure on-premises at their own campuses. QuEra in its announcement also alluded to a third choice–a combination of the two.

The assumption has been that the cloud will continue to be a primary method of quantum processors access–and eventually FTQC access–for most organizations, but sovereign quantum computing strategies are becoming more common, and the combined approach will appeal to governments and other organizations that want to keep some of their most sensitive workloads off the cloud.

The announcement stated that QuEra and HPE are pursuing integrated testbeds, hybrid algorithm co-design, software interoperability, and system-level performance benchmarking.

“Bringing neutral-atom, fault-tolerant systems into an HPC environment introduces a different engineering problem than delivering quantum computing over the cloud,” said Yuval Boger, Chief Commercial Officer at QuEra Computing. “HPE’s deep experience in supercomputing gives organizations the benefit of working with a partner who can solve that problem at the scale they need.”

“Organizations running the world’s most demanding workloads need quantum and classical computing to work together seamlessly,” said Dr. Masoud Mohseni, Senior Distinguished Technologist and Director of HPE Quantum. “Our partnership with QuEra aims to bring fault-tolerant quantum capabilities into HPC environments, creating a clear path from today’s supercomputers to tomorrow’s hybrid quantum-classical systems.”

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