D-Wave Wins CAD $300,000 for Advantage2 Software Upgrade
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Updated · Quantum Zeitgeist · Aug 12
D-Wave Wins CAD $300,000 for Advantage2 Software Upgrade
3 articles · Updated · Quantum Zeitgeist · Aug 12
Summary
CAD $300,000 from Canada’s National Research Council will fund D-Wave’s work on software for its Advantage2 annealing quantum computers.
The project targets new graph minor-embedding algorithms that map complex optimization problems onto Advantage2’s Zephyr topology, a key step in making those problems runnable on the system.
D-Wave plans to add the algorithms to its open-source Ocean software development kit, aiming to expand the scale of computations customers can tackle in areas such as logistics and machine learning.
The award, made through the Applied Quantum Computing Challenge program, also reflects Canada’s broader push to speed applied quantum commercialization through government-industry-academia collaboration.