HCL Technologies, homegrown IT ( information technology ) services announced its partnership with Azure Quantum which is Microsoft’s quantum cloud computing services. Using the Microsoft platform as a technology stack, HCL Technologies will offer business cloud-based quantum computing services to its customers. The services will be provided or made available to the clients of HCL through HCLTech’s Q labs, one of Microsoft’s partners to offer Azure Quantum credits.
Using this partnership, HCL will develop on-cloud instances of quantum technologies and will showcase Proof Of Concept or PoC business use cases to its clients.
Commenting on this partnership, Linda Lauw, senior director at Microsoft’s Azure Quantum Planning and Partnerships said- The early stage of Microsoft and HCLTech’s Q labs partnership has seen remarkable engagement from introducing enterprises to partnerships in quantum computing foundations right not through PoC pilots.
The company said in a statement –HCLTech’s Q labs seek to develop early-stage research programs to develop industrial quantum computing applications. To develop use cases, the company under its partnership with Microsoft will offer the quantum computing cloud service to close to 1,000 employees around the world.
Google’s quantum computing service Cirq, IBM’s Quantum, and Microsoft’s Azure Quantum are the most prominent cloud-based services that provide businesses access to quantum hardware over the cloud. As per the reports, in September last year, IBM announced a partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) or IIT Madras where the company will offer the students of IIT Madras to access its quantum hardware to help develop applications like algorithms, applications, and skillsets among engineers.
As the reports suggested, on February 22, Google chief Sundar Pichai said in an interview- A team of researchers at the Google company have succeeded in developing or creating logical qubits which are large fundamental building blocks of quantum computing as well as using the same to reduce the computational errors made by quantum computers.
To reduce computational errors, the researchers require a specific set of conditions for its fundamental computing factor, qubits, to operate at their quantum state. The researchers claimed that by grouping 47 qubits into a larger single entity, we will be able to make more reliable quantum calculations.
Thus, taking a step towards making quantum computers commercially viable.
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