IONQ
IONQ
Today, IonQ revealed that it is obtaining the running assets of Knotted Networks in Toronto, Canada. In addition to broadening its technology base, IonQ will also be broadening its global footprint when the Entangled Networks team joins newly-formed IonQ Canada as part of the offer.
Knotted Networks and its multicore technology fills an important requirement in IonQ’s future hardware strategy.
IonQ architecture
IonQ uses a trapped-ion quantum computing architecture that is presently centered on direct selections including ion qubits. Lasers are utilized for cooling, creating quantum gates and obtaining readouts.
Today, qubits in IonQ’s systems are contained in a single chip called quantum processing units (QPU). The QPUs have several linear ion trapping zones with a capability of about 100 qubits each. IonQ’s roadmap not just shows the variety of qubits increasing in each QPU, however it also originally had plans to develop the innovation needed to connect and network qubits in between QPUs utilizing photonic affiliations and optical networking innovation.
Now, instead of being established by IonQ, technology acquired from Knotted Networks will perform the networking function that connects allow the quantum processing functions together. It will play an essential role in helping IonQ accomplish its supreme architectural objective of fault-tolerant calculations utilizing knotted qubits covering several QPUs scaled to countless qubits.
The crucial nature of networking to IonQ’s future became apparent when the business revealed a five-year roadmap in 2020. In one of my earlier discussions about the roadmap with Dr. Jungsang Kim, cofounder and CTO of IonQ, he stated that IonQ strategies to pave the way to modularity by developing smaller, lighter and more affordable QPUs that can be networked together to form a bigger computer system. “If you want to get to scalable quantum computer systems,” he stated, “it needs to be modular, no matter what physical qubit architecture we use.” The roadmap calls for modularized QPUs to be networked together using photonic links in a dispersed computing setup.
The roadmap consists of future advancement of multi-core QPUs by utilizing multiple compute zones that are capable of scaling to hundreds of physical qubits. The roadmap likewise prepares for networking multi-core QPUs with other QPUs to form a lot more powerful quantum devices.
What Entangled Networks gives the table
Entangled Network’s MultiQopt item provides quantum circuit optimization for modular system architectures such as those in advancement by IonQ. Adjoining clusters of QPUs isn’t a basic matter of building a fiber network and connecting the gadgets together. Unlike in classical clusters, the laws of quantum mechanics don’t allow quantum data to be cloned, which is why the setup needs to be handled with special hardware, algorithms and shows.
Knotted Networks’ multicore technology and engineering group supply:
- Hardware that consists of the light collection system and the network fabric switch
- Software that contains an algorithm library, optimizing controller and real-time networking control
- Networking competence
Peter Chapman, IonQ’s president and CEO, summarized the effect of obtaining Entangled Networks to me:
“With today’s acquisition of Entangled Networks, IonQ is one step more detailed to establishing quantum networks efficient in dealing with the most intricate issues of today and tomorrow. While classical supercomputer networks communicate between processors to divide work, the objective of our quantum network is to entangle qubits at scale which can lead to larger, more powerful systems used for calculation. We are laying the groundwork today for future development, scalability, and adoption of quantum.”
Concluding
In the next few years, IonQ strategies to integrate the gotten innovation into its quantum computer system architecture. Full-blown modular connectivity will provide connections in between any qubits inside the system, situated across any variety of QPUs. The highly scalable architecture should be powerful adequate to carry out massive, intricate quantum computational problems, no matter the structure of the problem.
It ought to be kept in mind that IonQ has the internal ability to develop the technology needed to network QPU’s together. Over the previous years, Dr. Kim, IonQ cofounder and chief researcher Dr. Christopher Monroe and others have looked into the technology needed to network quantum computer systems together utilizing high-bandwidth connections between QPU devices.
However, acquiring Entangled Networks was the much better and more efficient alternative than continuing to establish that innovation in-house. Not just did IonQ gain a tested networking technology, it also conserved a big amount in advancement costs and leapfrogged ahead of its original roadmap timelines. IonQ now expects to show networking in between 2 quantum computer systems at some point this year.
Networking technology is foundational to IonQ’s scaling goals and future success. Because the acquisition of Entangled Networks provides it the requisite expertise in quantum architecture, plus software application and hardware IP, this is a brilliant move by IonQ.
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