D-Wave and PiCloud Forges Development Partnership to Bring Power of Quantum Computing to Cloud

PiCloud is a provider of cloud computing platform, which is elastic, easy to use, and lock-in free. D-Wave is a company, committed to integrate new discoveries in physics and computer science into breakthrough new approaches to computation. The two companies have come together in a development partnership with an aim make all of the world's computing capabilities – be it conventional or quantum – easily accessible to the community of developers, engineers and scientists.

Projects are underway to integrate the two companies' technologies, a press release revealed.

“PiCloud is a cloud computing platform dedicated to giving every developer, scientist, and engineer in the world a supercomputer at their fingertips,” said Ken Elkabany PiCloud co-founder.

Under the partnership, two companies that operate in some of the same market spaces, such as financial modeling, defense systems, biological modeling and image analysis,  are going to align their development goals. The partnership will give the developers remote access to D-Wave's development library through an integration with PiCloud's cloud platform. With the thousands of cores that can be leveraged on-demand with PiCloud, developers will be able to access a new type of supercomputing / quantum computing hybrid capability from anywhere with Internet access.

“Because of the exotic nature of our technology, it was designed from the ground up to be used remotely. This remote access model works beautifully with PiCloud's cloud computing platform. As a developer, you can send parts of your code to the conventional cloud, and parts to D-Wave quantum computers, and the result is a tool that provides access to a new type of high performance computer that has never existed before," said D-Wave Founder and CTO Dr. Geordie Rose.

D-Wave's quantum computing technology is designed to excel at machine learning and optimization problems, which are typically associated with “Big Data” applications where enormous amounts of data must be handled and processed.

PiCloud’s cloud computing can be leveraged for handling various aspects of Big Data, while specialized, highly complex tasks can be run on D-Wave hardware.

“One very interesting application of such hybrid systems is in large-scale machine learning, where data volumes are vast, and the learning process requires solution of large numbers of combinatorial optimization problems. This allows all of the best practices currently used for handling and processing large data volumes to continue to be used, but now with a specialized hardware system designed to solve the hard combinatorial nuggets that conventional computers can't deal with,” said Dr. Suzanne Gildert, applications strategist for D-Wave.

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