So much has been happening on the quantum technology front in recent days that it would be unwise to try to cram it all into one wrap-up story… but we’re going to try anyway:
...Amid a blizzard of other announcements at its GTC Fall event, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang took a little time out from talking about the metaverse to tout a recent quantum achievement by his company. Nvidia said it executed the largest ever simulation of a quantum algorithm using its cuQuantum SDK. Until the world is dense with real quantum computing hardware, such simulations will be critically important to advancing quantum computing research.
Nvidia also said it is integrating its cuStateVec software library from the cuQuantum SDk into Google Quantum AI’s state vector simulator for programming quantum computers. IBM plans to use cuQuantum in its own simulator.
We haven't heard much from Nvidia on the quantum computing front, but its achievement and these new arrangements with two of the pioneers in the field suggest there could be more to come soon…
...Get that special person in your life a holiday gift they won’t soon forget: 16 months worth of access to the Black Opal quantum computing training program. Q-CTRL even is promoting a Black Friday sale for its Black Opal offering, which comes at a time when quantum needs skilled labor--no joke…
...Real commercial quantum computing apps are more like a 2035 thing than a 2021 thing, right? Not so in finance, where Multiverse Computing and IonQ have teamed up to allow financial services firms to use cloud-based quantum hardware applied to portfolio optimization, risk assessment and other use cases…
...Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) announced that its Qatalyst ready-to-run quantum software was selected as one of three finalists for the second and final round of the BMW Group and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Quantum Computing Challenge for the Vehicle Sensor Placement use case. The Vehicle Sensor Placement use case challenges participants to find optimal configurations of sensors for a given vehicle so that it can reliably detect obstacles in different driving scenarios. Optimizing placement could be a significant cost-saver as the number of sensors in and around vehicles continues to increase…
...Max Schireson, the former CEO of open source database company MongoDB, has joined the Board of Directors for Quantum Machines.
Watch for our weekly reports on future Friday afternoons...