Partnership Announcements: Pasqal/Nvidia, PsiQuantum/Qunasys/JSR, Rigetti/PlanQK, and Quantum-Sou...

Several partnership announcements of various types were made this week.

Pasqal with work with Nvidia to build a Quantum Computing Center of Excellence using 10 Nvida DGX A100 connected together with Nvidia InfiniBand networking. Pasqal will also use the NVIDIA cuQuantum software development kit. The cuQuantum software accelerates quantum circuit state vector and tensor network simulations by orders of magnitude. You can view the press release from Pasqal here.

PsiQuantum and Qunasys will research how the future use of PsiQuantum's fault tolerant photonic technology for computational chemistry related to new material discovery. JSR Corporation is interested in utilizing the capability in the manufacture of photoresists, elastomers, plastics, and reagents. The initial phase of this activity will be to estimate the computational time and resources needed for a fault-tolerant quantum computer to solve advanced quantum chemistry simulations. Qunasys is working with PsiQuantum because they felt that a full fault tolerant quantum computer was more suitable for this particular research than NISQ type machines. You can view a Qunasys news release announcing the partnership here.

Rigetti will provide access to its latest quantum processors to the German consortium PlanQK (Platform and Ecosystem for Quantum-Assisted Artificial Intelligence). PlanQK will be using the hardware to help research real-world artificial intelligence use cases. The PlanQK consortium members include D-Fine, Deutsche Bahn, QAR-Lab of Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU), University of Stuttgart and StoneOne AG. They want to better understand and build competence on how machine learning and optimization applications can be accelerated through the use of quantum hardware. You can view the news release provided by Rigetti here.

Quantum-South and the Universidad de Montevideo have reached a collaboration agreement to work together on various aspects of quantum computing. As part of the agreement, Quantum-South will offer internships and end-of-degree projects to Universidad de Montevideo students. The two organizations will also work together in areas including academic and professional symposia, publications, lectures, joint research, equipment, and other things. The two organizations are currently executing a project with partial funding from the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII), entitled “Load optimization software for the transport industry, using quantum computing.” You can view a news release announcing the signing of this collaboration agreement here.

December 11, 2021