Quantum Brilliance (QB) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced a strategic collaboration that will integrate the former’s diamond-based quantum accelerators with the latter’s state-of-the-art high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. The partners hope to validate the potential of QB’s compact, room-temperature quantum accelerators in tasks that go beyond the realms of classical computing.
Readers may not be familiar with Australia-based QB, but the U.S.-based ORNL is well known as the home of the Department of Energy’s Frontier supercomputer. Thus, this collaboration is a very serious step forward for quantum computing. Frontier sits proudly atop the Top500 list, thanks to its 8.7 million cores delivering up to 1,206 PFlop/s (while eating through 22,786kW). Perhaps this collaboration will one day take supercomputing even higher, hand-in-hand with greater efficiency.
