Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

The state of New Mexico and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an agreement to establish the Quantum Frontier Project. This is part of a broader $315 million quantum computing initiative, announced by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, that aims to accelerate quantum innovation and commercialization in the state. The project directly supports DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). The $315 million investment is structured to provide $185 million from the state's sovereign wealth fund for private venture capital firms to invest in quantum businesses in New Mexico. DARPA and the state will each contribute up to $60 million over [...]

Researchers from Q-CTRL, NVIDIA, and Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) have published research on a new solution for a bottleneck in quantum circuit compilation. The research, detailed in an arXiv preprint, focuses on the subgraph isomorphism problem, which becomes computationally complex as quantum algorithms and hardware systems scale. The new algorithm, named Δ-Motif, is a data-centric approach that replaces traditional backtracking strategies by decomposing graphs into fundamental motifs and modeling graph processing with relational database operations. This solution leverages open-source libraries like Pandas and Numpy and utilizes NVIDIA RAPIDS to achieve parallelism on GPUs. Benchmarks simulating quantum devices larger than current hardware [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in partnership with Quantum Brilliance, has installed a cluster of quantum computers at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). The cluster, named Quoll, consists of three Quantum Development Kits (QDKs), featuring three parallelized QPUs for a total of six qubits. This system is ORNL’s first on-site, commercial quantum computer cluster, and it will be used to explore ways to integrate this technology into classical high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. The diamond-based QPUs used by Quantum Brilliance operate at room temperature in a compact package. This is possible due to the intrinsic [...]

Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India’s R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The collaboration aims to explore the co-development of hybrid quantum computing systems to support government laboratories and academics pursuing quantum computing research and development in India. C-DAC, which is the nodal agency for the Government of India’s ChipIN initiative, brings expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. The partnership is a strategic step toward developing indigenous cryogenic electronics, superconducting quantum hardware, and securing access to advanced processor fabrication. Rigetti and [...]

Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI) has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA CUDA-Q programming capabilities into its Aqumen software suite. This integration is positioned as the first of its kind with a dual-rail quantum computing environment and aims to advance hybrid high-performance computing (HPC)-quantum workflows for developers. QCI's technology is based on superconducting dual-rail qubits, which are designed to natively detect erasure errors. This built-in error detection is intended to enable a more efficient path to scalability and lower overhead for large-scale systems. The integration with CUDA-Q provides Aqumen users with an environment to create and simulate applications with both [...]

Phasecraft, a quantum algorithms company, has raised $34 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by Plural, existing investor Playground Global, and Novo Holdings' Quantum Fund, with additional participation from existing investors AlbionVC, Latitude, and Parkwalk Advisors. This new funding brings the total capital raised to over $50 million, including grant funding, and will be used to accelerate Phasecraft’s research and development and expand industrial efforts. Phasecraft develops hardware-agnostic quantum algorithms using a quantum-enhanced approach that leverages quantum computing as a partner to standard computing. This approach is intended to enable today’s Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices to [...]

Norma, a South Korean quantum computing company, has validated the performance of its quantum AI algorithms on the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform. By running these algorithms for drug development on NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, the company observed computational speeds up to 73 times faster compared to traditional CPU-based quantum simulators. This project was launched as part of a joint research effort with Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, aimed at discovering drug candidates. Norma's quantum AI algorithms, such as QLSTM, QGAN, and QCBM, were tested on the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform, which is designed to integrate GPUs and QPUs for hybrid operations. [...]

A new study by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) proposes a blueprint for a software architecture that would integrate quantum computers with high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The study, co-authored by Amir Shehata, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, and Tom Beck, builds on a previous ORNL effort to establish more concrete guidelines for putting this integration into practice. Key innovations of the study include a unified resource management system designed to coordinate quantum and classical resources, a flexible quantum programming interface that abstracts hardware-specific details, and a quantum platform management interface to simplify the integration of [...]

The European Innovation Council-funded QCDC project ("Quantum Computers for Data Centres") has successfully concluded, resulting in the establishment of a new cloud-based computing service for trapped-ion quantum computers in Europe. The service grants European researchers access to devices from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) to perform advanced quantum computing tasks, which is intended to support innovation in healthcare and industrial advancements. The new cloud service has enabled initial proof-of-concept demonstrations. Some research teams have performed hardware implementations of advanced calculations for biochemical research and computational fluid dynamics. A collaboration involving AQT and teams from QC Ware, Covestro, and Boehringer Ingelheim used a [...]

The Wellcome Sanger Institute has selected Quantinuum as a technology partner for the Wellcome Leap Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) challenge. This collaboration aims to develop quantum algorithms to overcome computational bottlenecks in genomics research that are currently beyond the reach of classical computers. The consortium's overarching goal is to perform a range of genomic processing tasks for complex genomes and sequences. The central mission for the collaboration is to encode and process an entire genome on a quantum computer, with the bacteriophage PhiX174 as the chosen genome. Quantinuum will provide its quantum computing systems, software, and expertise. The company's quantum computer, [...]