Quantum News Briefs August 3: QuEra launches flexible access to world’s largest publicly-accessible quantum computers; AIEE sign licence contract for Arqit QuantumCloud™; NREL & partners link quantum computing into grid-testing platform + MORE
Quantum News Briefs August 3:
QuEra launches flexible access to world’s largest publicly-accessible quantum computers
QuEra Computing announced August 2 that it now supports new ways of accessing its quantum computers to meet the computing, compliance and security requirements of any customer. Quantum News Briefs summarizes the announcement.
Under QuEra’s new program, its industry-leading quantum computers can now be leased for on-premise use, accessed via a premium service model, or used on a major public cloud. Dozens of companies are now regularly accessing QuEra’s quantum computers through these methods.
QuEra’s technology is built on large-scale arrays of neutral atoms. It currently offers users up to 256 qubits on its Aquila-class machines, with plans to scale to much higher numbers. QuEra’s designs feature a unique combination of system size, coherence, and an innovative analog quantum processing mode that provides new ways to solve machine learning, optimization and simulation problems. Furthermore, Aquila machines offer the added benefit of its FPQA™ technology, a field-programmable qubit array that provides flexible reconfiguration of its qubit positioning, comparable to designing a new chip layout for each computation. The hardware is complemented by Bloqade™, an open-source software package that assists with expressing and testing problems in this new way.
On-Premise
Organizations that need direct access to QuEra’s industry-leading 256-qubit quantum computers and want full control over who uses the system and their access priority can now lease machines for on-premise delivery. QuEra’s team of experts works closely with each customer to ensure alignment and integration with existing HPC resources, creating a unified, powerful computing environment. Additionally, QuEra offers ongoing support and assistance in workforce and application development.
Premium Access:
Premium Access provides a secure connection to a QuEra machine and includes direct support from QuEra’s team of exceptional scientists and engineers. Together, QuEra and Premium Access customers collaborate to solve difficult problems. QuEra also provides industry best practices, personalized support, and tailored training programs to enhance the organization’s neutral atom quantum computing skills.
Amazon Braket:
Customers can continue to access QuEra’s Aquila directly using their Amazon Braket, a fully managed quantum computing service designed to help speed up scientific research and software development for quantum computing.rom resonant customer demand. This pivotal move is not just a response but an exciting leap forward that opens a realm of new opportunities for our customers and for QuEra.” Click here to read the announcement in-entirety.
AIEE sign license contract for Arqit QuantumCloud™
Arqit Quantum Inc. and Advanced International Electronic Equipment Company WLL (AIEE), a leading provider of advanced communication solutions and support services across the Middle East, today announced the purchase of a license for QuantumCloud™, Arqit’s Symmetric Key Agreement Platform. Quantum News Briefs summarizes.
Under the deal, AIEE will harness Arqit’s Symmetric Key Agreement Platform to offer unparalleled levels of resilience, security and privacy across open and closed networks, protecting customers from both current and future cyber threats including spoofing, harvesting and tampering. This important partnership builds on AIEE’s existing services that protect and manage data, communications, devices, sensors and network infrastructures across governments, critical infrastructure and commercial enterprises.
AIEE was formed in 1990 to provide high level engineering support for National communication and IT networks across the Middle East region from its headquarters based in Kuwait. Since its formation AIEE has delivered some of the most advanced National networks in the region which support multiple sectors ranging from Defence to Oil. These networks provide vital communications for public safety users and National Infrastructure and require the highest level of protection against new and advanced cyber threats.
This cooperation with Arqit will allow AIEE to provide the highest level of protection commercially available on a local basis to its wide range of customers helping to harden networks against present and future cyber threats. AIEE was the first regional company to export technical services under ISO 9001 certification. Click here to read announcement in-entirety.
NREL & partners link quantum computing into grid-testing platform
Quantum computing technology has, for the first time, been integrated into an electric grid research platform, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Quantum computing technology has, for the first time, been integrated into an electric grid research platform, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
“With the huge amount of ways energy can now be generated and supplied, it is very important to handle so many inputs and outputs, but classical computing-based optimizers are not designed to handle an exponential scale-up in input parameters that the industry is expected to witness in the next two decades,” Sayonsom Chanda, a power system engineer at NREL, said in a statement. “We’re talking millions of inputs and outputs; that’s when classical computers start showing their limits, and quantum computers their benefits.”
With funding from the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and in collaboration with RTDS Technologies and Atom Computing, NREL says it has debuted an open-source interface that it says allows researchers to perform “quantum-in-the-loop,” as opposed to hardware-in-the-loop, simulations that are used to help optimize the performance of the electric grid.
n conjunction with its Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems tool, NREL said it can run quantum in-the-loop within highly realistic power systems. It could be “an important next step for using quantum computing to optimize electric grid operations with the interconnection of increasingly complex distributed energy resources,” NREL said.
The first optimization problem that we want to tackle is how best to draw power from different sources,” Chanda said. “You have some resources more closely located to certain loads and others that make more economic sense to deploy. Perhaps quantum computing can determine how to quickly switch power sources for resilience and efficiency.” Click here to read the complete article on PublicPower.org site.
Thales announces Quantum-Ready Cybersecurity measures for Galileo
Thales, the French multinational company, has affirmed its central role in providing cybersecurity solutions for Galileo, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides geolocation services. Quantum News Briefs summarizes.
