July 17, 2022
A national quantum computer with a processing power of more than 50 cubic meters will be built. The center will be established with a budget of NIS 100 million for three years, as part of the national quantum project, whose budget now amounts to NIS 200 million.
The Innovation Authority announced today (Sunday) that it has chosen the company Quantum Machines Tel Aviv as a company that will establish the Israeli Quantum Computing Center, with a total budget of NIS 100 million for three years. The Quantum Computing Center, will allow access to research and development in all layers of hardware and software in three different quantum processing technologies. It will serve the quantum computing community in industry and academia by providing a full-fledged universal quantum computer for running calculations directly with a future cloud access option.
Its technological infrastructure will include the technologies of Classic (Classic) From Tel Aviv which has developed a platform for writing algorithms for quantum computers, and from Quantum Machines itself, which has developed a control system for quantum computers. The system includes hardware and software. It receives a quantum algorithm in the company’s programming language and translates it into signals sent to the quantum processor to run the actual algorithm on the quantum processor. The center is planned to set up all the infrastructure within 12-18 months, including a quantum computer with a power of more than 50 cubic meters.
Competitive advantage in the “upper tier”
The center operates within the framework of the national quantum project, which is managed by the Telam Forum, the Innovation Authority and Mapat. As part of this, quantum technologies will be developed with a total budget of NIS 200 million. The center will provide research and development services for dollar developments (civilian and military) in areas such as quantum processors dedicated to a variety of algorithms, development of VQA processor topologies for problem optimization, algorithmics, control signal engineering to improve noise handling, improve signal processing performance, interc technology development ) Between components, development of techniques and algorithms for correcting errors and more.
The project was launched following the recommendations of the Telam Forum for Quantum Computing in the field of quantum computing headed by Arena Berry, submitted to the Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Science in March 2019. The committee edited Israel To do this, however, it must build independent capabilities in the field of matter – that is, the realization of quantum processors. At the same time, she recommended increasing investment in other areas including: quantum communication, quantum materials and the basics of quantum theory.
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