Amazon’s Braket Available in Europe, Oxford Quantum Circuit Will Be First Non-North American QC on Service
Lucy will be in the cloud with Braket.
For the first time since its launch in August 2020, Amazon Braket becomes available in Europe and Oxford Quantum Circuits — TQI: OQC — will be the first non North-American quantum hardware provider that will be available on Braket, according to OQC officials.
Braket is a fully managed quantum computing service designed to help speed up scientific research and software development for quantum computing.
The move is a milestone for providing Europe’s businesses and scientists with additional quantum capability, said Ilana Wisby, CEO, OQC.
“Bringing OQC’s quantum computers to Amazon Braket was a natural next step in expanding our leadership in Europe,” said Wisby. “Our partnership with AWS is finally solving barriers to access for businesses and researchers in Europe so they can further experiment with quantum.”
OQC will make its latest system, Lucy, an 8 QPU quantum computer, available from February 2022. Following OQC’s convention of naming its systems after women in STEM, this system is named after Lucy Mensing, German physicist and pioneer of quantum mechanics.
Because Lucy will be located in the UK, OQC can provide Europe-friendly up-time and low-latency to customers in the region, offering higher serviceability with operations and support when they need it. The OQC and AWS partnership offers an edge to European customers, the company reports.
OQC said it is committed to the OpenQASM roadmap, which ensures customers can anticipate upcoming features.
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Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology company founded in 1994, headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Through its Climate Pledge Fund, established in 2020 with an initial $2 billion investment, Amazon invests in companies developing sustainability-focused technologies and services to help achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.
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Oxford Quantum Circuits
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) is a company that specializes in quantum computing technology aimed at addressing challenges like climate change and new drug discoveries. They offer Quantum Computing as-a-Service (QCaaS), making quantum computing accessible for breakthrough discoveries. OQC's core technology, the Coaxmon, ensures scalability and high-fidelity operation times in their superconducting quantum processors.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Braket – A fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers from multiple quantum hardware providers in a single place. Bra-ket notation is commonly used to denote quantum mechanical states, and inspired the name of the service.
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