D-Wave and CINECA Announce a Collaboration to Offer Expanded Access to D-Wave's Quantum Cloud Ser...

D-Wave and CINECA, the Italian inter-university consortium and one of the world’s leading global supercomputing centers have announced a formal collaboration to offer Italian universities, researchers, and developers expanded access to practical quantum computing technology and resources through D-Wave’s Leap™ quantum cloud service. CINECA is an Italian consortium composed of 69 Italian Universities, 25 national research institutes and government ministries formed to support the Italian scientific community with supercomputing and scientific visualization tools. They current possess several classical supercomputers shown on the TOP500 list and have a mission to support Italy's scientific community and improve quantum computing literacy and skills training for university partners. Earlier this year CINECA announced an agreement with French company Pasqal to access their forthcoming “Fresnel” 100-qubits processor later this year. You can view D-Wave's news release announcing this collaboration on their website here.

May 14, 2021