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NCC Finland
NCC Finland is part of the EuroCC2 project, which establishes national HPC competence centers in different European countries. EuroCC Finland's mission is to support and improve the capabilities of Finnish business users to utilize the opportunities of high- performance computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence. Through EuroCC Finland, companies have access to the computing capacity of the EuroHPC LUMI Supercomputer. EuroCC Finland is operated by CSC – IT Center for Science.
Industrial organisations involved:
QMill develops quantum-advantage algorithms which will be executed on near-term quantum computers to solve complex problems that are too large for existing supercomputers.
Technical/scientific Challenge:
The challenge that the company is working on is to find completely new and viable algorithms for future quantum machines, thereby reducing the time taken to beneficial use of quantum computing. Algorithms cannot be easily tested directly on quantum computers. Classical HPC helps the company now to get their quantum algorithms ready in a couple of years, meeting the expected market needs. With their algorithms, QMill algorithm development targets industrial optimization customers from different industries and development aims for optimization, cost savings and efficiency, but also for environmental friendliness and energy savings. Indeed, even if there are still few operational quantum machines globally, but the size of the quantum industry market is estimated to be approximately one billion euros.
With LUMI, QMill is testing whether their quantum circuits work correctly and efficiently, and how they scale when the number of qubits is increased. QMilll also uses LUMI to benchmark quantum algorithms, i.e. to see how well a problem is solved by classical algorithms on a supercomputer and compare the results with a quantum algorithm.
Business impact:
QMill is constantly looking for algorithm ideas, verifying them mathematically and by simulation and then computing with real quantum computers.
“Our goal is to validate the first useful quantum algorithm in about three years. We will benchmark the algorithm against all the best high-performance computing algorithms and hope that it performs better than any of them. Time will tell if we have a working quantum machine three years from now to demonstrate our results,” Kotovirta adds.
Benefits:
Quantum technology and algorithms benchmark with HPC
Reduced energy consumption when algorithms run on future quantum systems
Smooth simulations
Quantum ecosystem development
Success story # Highlights:
Keywords : RDI, quantum, quantum algorithms, emulation, benchmark
Technology : HPC, Quantum computing
Industry Sector : Quantum, software development
Ville Kotovirta, Chief Technology Officer at QMill. Photo: Mikael Kanerva / CSC
Contact
Dan Still, Dan.Still@csc.fi
Acknowledgements: This project has received support from Business Finland
