Super.tech Announces SuperstaQ, a Hardware Agnostic Software Platform

The SuperstaQ platform is what we would call a translator and optimizer. It takes as input quantum programs written in either the Cirq or Qiskit or OpenApi formats and outputs optimized code targeted for quantum backends from IBM, IonQ, Rigetti, or Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced Quantum Testbed. As part of this process, SuperstaQ implements a large array of full-stack optimization techniques including dynamical decoupling, excited state promotion, zero noise extrapolation and others to be used with the targeted backend's pulse-level native gates. The goal would be to arrive at an optimized program that has a minimized gate depth and best possible gate fidelity to achieve the best results for the given program. Super.tech already has beta users working with the program including the EPiQC collaboration led by the University of Chicago, Berkeley's Advanced Quantum Testbed and the Morningstar financial services firm. Additional information about SuperstaQ can be found in a news announcement here and also the web page for the product here.

August 16, 2021