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Chad Rigetti near one of his quantum computers.Rigetti Computing
By Alex Konrad and Alex Knapp
With a new cloud hosting service and a $ 1 million competition for first time adopters, Rigetti Computing unveils its plan to tackle Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the cloud. But the challenger of the CEO, Chad Rigetti, in the installation of cloud computing has a major technological advantage: what the start-up says is the first cloud service based on quantum computing.
After months of announcing progress in the field of quantum processors, Rigetti Computing announced Friday the platform that could bring the speed and benefits of its IT technologies to business users. Called Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services, the platform will provide access to hybrid computing systems – both Rigetti's quantum processors and traditional servers – located in its data centers.
Rigetti also announced a series of partnerships with quantum applications manufacturers, including 1QBit, Heisenberg and Zapata Computing. The five-year-old start-up also announced a contest, The Quantum Advantage Prize, which will provide $ 1 million to any team that can demonstrate a real business advantage in using the cloud service. The start plans to share the details of this competition at the end of October.
"Quantum computing is one of the most influential technologies in the world today," Rigetti said. Forbes. "The first demonstrations of quantum advantage will be a historic scientific milestone. There is a lot of hard work, fun and hard to accomplish, and we want to engage in this larger community, "he says.
Rigetti Computing has already offered cloud-based quantum access to its computers with its current services. The time it takes to use the quantum in the cloud while managing the more traditional data processing locally on the computers has, however, made the process extremely slow and expensive for some applications, says Rigetti, who founded the company in 2013. performance, he says, both for its current offerings as well as for other quantum cloud experiments, such as those of IBM.
The novelty of QCS, says the startup, is that consumers will now have access to features that work more like Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers. Users will have access to an image of a conventional hybrid computer and quantum, which will be pre-loaded with the open programming language of the Rigetti source for quantum computers. Users will also be able to add their own internal programming tools and libraries to the system.
Because of its quantum power, the QCS will initially offer 16 and 32 qubit systems to its users. Last month, Rigetti announced that it was working on a 128-bit chip, which it hopes to have completed and available on QCS by August 2019. Qubits are analogous to the "bits" in conventional computing, except where a bit represents a binary state of 0 or 1, the qubits exist in a superposition of several states. In theory, this should allow quantum processors to compute much faster than ordinary computers, even if, in practice, many factors are complicated – one being that quantum computers generate many errors that must be corrected later. . slows the overall processing speed.
With this combination of hardware and cloud services, Rigetti aims to enable its users to ultimately produce a "quantum advantage" – in other words, a process that allows a quantum computer to perform a computing task faster than a computer. traditional computer, cheaply. , or both. This goal, although pursued by a number of researchers and companies, has so far proved insufficient. Rigetti thinks that his company's services will be the key to solving the problem.
"What we do with architecture is to solve a key performance problem to achieve a quantum advantage with short-term quantum capabilities," said the CEO. According to him, stimulate this innovation is the goal of the price of a million dollars.
Rigetti's ambition with Quantum Cloud Services is to ultimately offer the first quantum alternative to established public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. According to its CEO, the company is converting its research center into the first center it hopes to be a series of quantum data centers and plans to establish a network of data centers and data similar to the big three over the next few years.
Scaling up such a cloud network, even with the help of quantum computing, will be a daunting task. In recent years, many other companies have sought to enter the lucrative, high-growth cloud services market, from historical giants like IBM and Oracle to startups such as DigitalOcean and Chinese giant Alibaba. The gold rush has spawned multi-billion dollar acquisitions and calls for dominating results. But the results have not always been easy to find, as many challengers have struggled to gain significant market share from the distant leader, Amazon, and its two major technology competitors.
According to Rigetti, quantum networking could be considered in large scale traditional data centers within a decade or two. Rivals seeking to duplicate his work with QCS, meanwhile, will take a year to digest what Rigetti is revealing to his partners, he says.
But Rigetti seems to realize that to launch an ambitious new technology, it is easier to create a community of fans than to try to create a new standard by itself. If it attracts the interest of high-level academics and technologists, the start-up's $ 1 million prize for the first project to prove the commercial value of the SCQ could be a relatively cheap price. In this perspective, Rigetti's partnerships with other quantum companies have a strategic meaning. But the company will still have to conquer the end users, such as biotech stores, pharmaceutical companies and machine learning companies, after getting these technical allies. (Its price can help in this regard – the company says there will initially be no service charges for the service.)
Whatever the long-term business results it inspires, Rigetti's announcement through QCS is a boost to the big players in the cloud and its quantum rivals and a call to arms for those seeking new how to calculate in the cloud.
The eponymous CEO of Rigetti already thinks a lot. "Ten years later, I think Rigetti can be one of the top three global cloud providers, driven by a quantum-based approach," he says.
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Chad Rigetti near one of his quantum computers.Rigetti Computing
By Alex Konrad and Alex Knapp
With a new cloud hosting service and a $ 1 million competition for first time adopters, Rigetti Computing unveils its plan to tackle Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the cloud. But the challenger of the CEO, Chad Rigetti, in the installation of cloud computing has a major technological advantage: what the start-up says is the first cloud service based on quantum computing.
After months of announcing progress in the field of quantum processors, Rigetti Computing announced Friday the platform that could bring the speed and benefits of its IT technologies to business users. Called Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services, the platform will provide access to hybrid computing systems – both Rigetti's quantum processors and traditional servers – located in its data centers.
Rigetti also announced a series of partnerships with quantum applications manufacturers, including 1QBit, Heisenberg and Zapata Computing. The five-year-old start-up also announced a contest, The Quantum Advantage Prize, which will provide $ 1 million to any team that can demonstrate a real business advantage in using the cloud service. The start plans to share the details of this competition at the end of October.
"Quantum computing is one of the most influential technologies in the world today," Rigetti said. Forbes. "The first demonstrations of quantum advantage will be a historic scientific milestone. There is a lot of hard work, fun and hard to accomplish, and we want to engage in this larger community, "he says.
Rigetti Computing has already offered cloud-based quantum access to its computers with its current services. The time it takes to use the quantum in the cloud while managing the more traditional data processing locally on the computers has, however, made the process extremely slow and expensive for some applications, says Rigetti, who founded the company in 2013. performance, he says, both for its current offerings as well as for other quantum cloud experiments, such as those of IBM.
The novelty of QCS, says the startup, is that consumers will now have access to features that work more like Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers. Users will have access to an image of a conventional hybrid computer and quantum, which will be pre-loaded with the open programming language of the Rigetti source for quantum computers. Users will also be able to add their own internal programming tools and libraries to the system.
Because of its quantum power, the QCS will initially offer 16 and 32 qubit systems to its users. Last month, Rigetti announced that it was working on a 128-bit chip, which it hopes to have completed and available on QCS by August 2019. Qubits are analogous to the "bits" in conventional computing, except where a bit represents a binary state of 0 or 1, the qubits exist in a superposition of several states. In theory, this should allow quantum processors to compute much faster than ordinary computers, even if, in practice, many factors are complicated – one being that quantum computers generate many errors that must be corrected later. . slows the overall processing speed.
With this combination of hardware and cloud services, Rigetti aims to enable its users to ultimately produce a "quantum advantage" – in other words, a process that allows a quantum computer to perform a computing task faster than a computer. traditional computer, cheaply. , or both. This goal, although pursued by a number of researchers and companies, has so far proved insufficient. Rigetti thinks that his company's services will be the key to solving the problem.
"What we do with architecture is to solve a key performance problem to achieve a quantum advantage with short-term quantum capabilities," said the CEO. According to him, stimulate this innovation is the goal of the price of a million dollars.
Rigetti's ambition with Quantum Cloud Services is to ultimately offer the first quantum alternative to established public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. According to its CEO, the company is converting its research center into the first center it hopes to be a series of quantum data centers and plans to establish a network of data centers and data similar to the big three over the next few years.
Scaling up such a cloud network, even with the help of quantum computing, will be a daunting task. In recent years, many other companies have sought to enter the lucrative, high-growth cloud services market, from historical giants like IBM and Oracle to startups such as DigitalOcean and Chinese giant Alibaba. The gold rush has spawned multi-billion dollar acquisitions and calls for dominating results. But the results have not always been easy to find, as many challengers have struggled to gain significant market share from the distant leader, Amazon, and its two major technology competitors.
According to Rigetti, quantum networking could be considered in large scale traditional data centers within a decade or two. Rivals seeking to duplicate his work with QCS, meanwhile, will take a year to digest what Rigetti is revealing to his partners, he says.
But Rigetti seems to realize that to launch an ambitious new technology, it is easier to create a community of fans than to try to create a new standard by itself. If it attracts the interest of high-level academics and technologists, the start-up's $ 1 million prize for the first project to prove the commercial value of the SCQ could be a relatively cheap price. In this perspective, Rigetti's partnerships with other quantum companies have a strategic meaning. But the company will still have to conquer the end users, such as biotech stores, pharmaceutical companies and machine learning companies, after getting these technical allies. (Its price can help in this regard – the company says there will initially be no service charges for the service.)
Whatever the long-term business results it inspires, Rigetti's announcement through QCS is a boost to the big players in the cloud and its quantum rivals and a call to arms for those seeking new how to calculate in the cloud.
The eponymous CEO of Rigetti already thinks a lot. "Ten years later, I think Rigetti can be one of the top three global cloud providers, driven by a quantum-based approach," he says.
