Quantum Brilliance has partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to integrate room-temperature quantum computers with classical supercomputers.
The diamond-based quantum technology company and the lab are planning to build a platform that will support the on-premises integration of Quantum Brilliance’s diamond quantum accelerators into the HPC systems housed at ORNL.
Founded in Australia in 2019, Quantum Brilliance was born out of research projects undertaken at the Australian National University. The company, which has received funding from the Australian Capital Territory government, now operates in Canberra, Australia, and Stuttgart, Germany.
The optical and quantum properties of diamonds are thought to make them uniquely promising for quantum networking and quantum communications applications.
In addition to exploring the computational possibilities and effectiveness of combining parallelised quantum accelerators with HPC systems, the partners are also planning to develop new software tools that will enable users to implement new computational methods and develop their own.
“Parallel quantum computing holds transformative potential for scientific discovery and industrial applications that require high-performance computing,” said Dr Travis Humble, director, Quantum Science Center at ORNL. “Partnering with Quantum Brilliance allows us to explore effective integration with our existing HPC systems, paving the way for ground-breaking advancements that will inform the design of future HPC infrastructure.”
Mark Luo, CEO of Quantum Brilliance, added, “By integrating the world’s first cluster of room-temperature QPUs with ORNL’s leading HPC infrastructure, we aim to demonstrate the benefits of parallel quantum computing. This is a critical milestone towards achieving massively parallelized quantum accelerators, which we believe will be the preferred architecture in HPC centers.”
ORNL in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is home to the world’s current most powerful supercomputer, Frontier. The lab also houses a 10 petaflops supercomputer used by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration in addition to the 200 petaflops Summit system.
