Quantum Brilliance Releases a Beta Version of Their Own Quantum SDK and Quantum Emulator

Quantum Brilliance has a slightly different vision of how quantum computers can be configure than other companies. They see the devices they are building as quantum accelerators that will be deeply integrated within an HPC data center rather than as standalone quantum mainframes. For this reason, they have developed their own software development kit called the Qristal SDK and a high performance emulator called Qristal Emulator. The Qristal SDK allows customers to develop and test their quantum programs. It includes both a C++ and Python interface and is designed to handle hybrid applications for massively parallelized or embedded quantum computers. Programs developed with Qristal SDK can subsequently be run on Quantum Brilliance hardware or simulated in the SDK using Quantum Brilliance device noise models. The Qristal Emulator uses NVIDIA's cuQuantum technology to substantially reduce simulation times by one or two orders of magnitude. It also provides a capability for resource estimation for the quantum program to determine the hardware requirements for a particular application. These software products are currently in open beta with general availability scheduled for Q2 2023. Additional information about Qristal SDK and Qristal Emulator can be seen in a news release that can be accessed here. For those who want to download the software and try it, you can find it on Quantum Brilliance' GitHub page here.

March 2, 2023