(HPC.Wire) NVIDIA announced at GTC 2021 the cuQuantum software development kit to speed quantum circuit simulations running on GPUs. Early work indicates that cuQuantum delivers orders of magnitude speedups for circuit simulations, paving the way...

(TechNewsInsight) Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission as well as cabinet members Bruno Le Maire and Clément Bonn, recently went to the CEA’s very large computing center in Bruyères-le-Châtel (Essonne).
Jean-Philippe Verger,...

(BizJournals.Washington) Greater Washington, D.C. faces an opportunity in quantum computing which is sprouting in the region’s fertile ground for innovation.
Much of it is stemming from university research, with University of Maryland sitting at...

(HPCWire) Cambridge Quantum (CQ), together with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Monterrey Institute of Technology (TEC de Monterrey), published a paper describing the implementation of a quantum-safe blockchain, which was...

(IBM-Case Studies: Daimler) Today’s lithium-ion powered cars can lay claim to persuasive travel distances and charging times, at a range of achievable prices. But if battery performance could double or quadruple overnight – boosting charge capacity,...

(EurAsiaReview) Given the importance of stealth systems in the US military, any power determined to counter its superiority would be interested in quantum radars. As of today, China seems to be leading the way in the field; but the same logic also...

(QuantumIsh.org) CQT recently hosted Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat for a virtual visit. DPM Heng came to talk about quantum technologies in his capacity as the Chairman of the National Research Foundation (NRF) with delegates from...

(NATO.intl) With support from NATO’s Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme, civilian scientists and research institutions in NATO member and partner countries are working together to mitigate risks and embrace opportunities presented by...

(HarvardGazette) Harvard's Assistant Physics Professor Julia Mundy has received a Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research. Established in 2013 with a gift from James A. Star ’83 and expanded funding from Josh Friedman ’76, M.B.A....

Boosting the number of qubits on a chip and developing the tech to connect these chips into larger processing systems is how Rigetti Computing plans to reach its goal of an 80-qubit system running on their cloud services platform later this year.
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(IrishTimes)
A breakthrough in superconductors has been announced by an international team. “Widely available quantum computing will be just as revolutionary – from where we are now – as regular computing was 30 or 40 years ago,” according to...