Commemorative ceremony for the launch of RIKEN Fugaku - IBM Quantum System Two integration

On June 24, a ceremony was held at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan, to mark the launch of collaborative operation of the supercomputer Fugaku and IBM Quantum System Two.

R-CCS, in collaboration with SoftBank Corp., has launched a project commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), titled "Research and Development Project of the Enhanced Infrastructures for Post-5G Information and Communication Systems / Research and Development of Quantum-Supercomputers Hybrid Platform for Exploration of Uncharted Computable Capabilities." Under this project, R-CCS is working together with SoftBank, the University of Tokyo, and Osaka University to develop highly versatile quantum-HPC hybrid system software, to build a hybrid quantum-supercomputer platform, and to realize technologies that can be deployed as services in the Post-5G era.

IBM Quantum System Two—equipped with the 156-qubit Heron superconducting quantum processor—has been installed at R-CCS. Consequently, “Quantum-Centric Supercomputing” operations utilizing both IBM Quantum System Two and the supercomputer Fugaku have been launched. This marks the first such deployment of IBM Quantum System Two outside of North America.

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