Quantum firms team up for hybrid computing under Linux

Business news | May 16, 2023

By Peter Clarke

quantum MPUs/MCUs

QMware GmbH (Saint Gallen, Switzerland) and QuiX Quantum NV (Enschede, The Netherlands) have agreed to collaborate build a hybrid quantum-classical computing platform in Enschede.

The hybrid architecture integrates high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure with native quantum computing technology and is expected to be fully operational for commercial applications in August 2023.

QMware offers a hybrid approach to quantum computing through its software framework. This will be used to integrate different hardware types with shared memory access. This will be operated under a unified Linux operating system. The companies say this will be the first of a new kind of data center and aims at a ten-fold increase in processing power.

QuiX Quantum makes use of photonic qubits that operate at room temperature therefore providing a scalable technology for optimization applications such as route planning and payload optimization in logistics or aerospace, or collateral portfolio and risk control in finance.

The quantum technology by QuiX Quantum is designed to support large computational models such as optimization and machine learning applications with millions of variables.

QMware will use a broadband, low-latency optical fiber connection to directly attach high-performance computing infrastructure with simulated and native quantum hardware.

“We believe that the photonics quantum processing units by QuiX Quantum, integrated into QMware’s hybrid quantum high-performance computers, are one of the most promising technologies to provide commercially sustainable quantum computing advantage,” said George Gesek, CTO and co-founder of QMware.