The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and Quantum Brilliance will be collaborating to develop Australia’s first quantum-supercomputing hub for innovation.
This collaboration is already starting to implement the recommendations from "Growing Australia’s Quantum Technology Industry", a new roadmap from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO.
CSIRO estimates the potential market opportunity for Australia from quantum computing at $2.5 billion per annum in revenue and 10,000 new jobs by 2040, without counting the significant growth and value that quantum computing will bring to Australia's other industries. When other quantum technologies like sensing and communications are added, the potential market opportunity rises to ~$4.3 billion and 16,000 new jobs.
This makes the possible quantum technology market value comparable to long-standing Australian markets, including wool ($3.6 billion, 2016-2017) and wheat ($5.8 billion, 2017-2018) industries.
Pawsey's Chief Technology Officer Ugo Varetto is positive about the opportunities this collaboration will provide to the Australian scientific community.
"We are excited to engage with Quantum Brilliance and the opportunity to develop our quantum computing expertise and help ensure that Pawsey can continue to deliver the best possible service to its user community. We are looking forward to exploring how quantum computing can contribute to solving grand challenges alongside existing and future high-performance computing systems."
This collaboration will see quantum expertise developed among Pawsey staff to then install and provide access to a quantum emulator at Pawsey and to work collaboratively with leading Australian researchers.
Dr Cathy Foley, CSIRO’s Chief Scientist, enthusiastically supports the partnership.
"This is very exciting to see, and represents an important step in translating this technology into real applications that create impact. This kind of collaboration is exactly what Australia needs, and is aligned with the recommendations of the Quantum Roadmap that CSIRO just released."
Quantum Brilliance is a leading Australian quantum computing company, using diamond to develop quantum computers that can operate at room temperature, without the cryogenics or complex infrastructure of other quantum technologies.
"Diamond means that instead of filling up a room with cryogenics, you can hold a quantum computer in your hand," says Quantum Brilliance CEO, Dr Andrew Horsley.
"That's a game-changer for how we can use quantum."
"Quantum hardware on-site at Pawsey will lower barriers to entry and allow anyone, anywhere to participate in quantum engineering. We want help Australian businesses and researchers be at the forefront of identifying and exploiting the most disruptive quantum computing applications," said Quantum Brilliance co-founder, Dr Marcus Doherty.
Quantum Brilliance is a spin-out from the Australian National University and a current participant in the CSIRO ON Accelerator. They will present as part of the ON Virtual Demo Night on 4 June. Register.
About Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth is one of two Tier-1 high-performance computing and data research facilities in Australia. It is an unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO and Western Australia’s four public universities, supported by the State and Federal governments. Pawsey is managed by CSIRO as a national facility available to the broader science community.
About Quantum Brilliance
Founded in 2019, Quantum Brilliance is an Australian quantum computing hardware vendor which builds room temperature quantum computers, powered by artificial diamond. Quantum Brilliance has the fastest and most pragmatic technological pathway to deliver quantum computing in our hands – Ubiquitous Quantum Computing. Quantum Brilliance is a spin-out from Australian National University, and won the Innovation Excellence Award at 2019 Tech23 conference in Sydney.
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