ORNL reportedly partnering with Quantum Brilliance
The global company specializes in diamond quantum materials and the development of small, ruggedized diamond quantum accelerators that operate at room temperature.
According to this article in TNW, a Financial Times company, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has chosen to partner with Quantum Brilliance for a hybrid quantum-classical project built on the Australian-German start-up’s room temperature quantum accelerator — made from diamond — to give its supercomputers a quantum boost.
The company that has offices in four countries — Australia, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom — specializes in diamond quantum materials and the development of small, ruggedized diamond quantum accelerators that operate at room temperature. The article defines a quantum accelerator as a specialized hardware unit that speeds up specific quantum algorithms, or tasks. They act as a co-processor to classical processors, such as CPUs or GPUs, taking on specific quantum calculations.
Quantum Brilliance also offers a range of software and application tools to go along with the hardware units.
The strategic partnership between ORNL and Quantum Brilliance will see the two explore the on-premise integration of the start-up’s clusters into the institution’s high-performance computing (HPC) systems to “explore the performance and effectiveness of parallelized and hybridized quantum computing.”
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