RIKEN Center for Computational Science chose QunaSys’s QURI SDK Enterprise as the main software layer for Japan’s national JHPC-quantum project, opening it to selected academic and industrial users.
The software is meant to remove hybrid-computing bottlenecks by handling multi-node job dispatch, parallel simulation and variational workflows across classical and quantum systems.
Fugaku, the ROQUO cluster’s 540 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, IBM Quantum System Two in Kobe and Quantinuum’s H2 system in Wako can now be targeted through one workflow without backend-specific code rewrites.
Under NEDO’s post-5G infrastructure program, the deployment builds on ROQUO’s June 2026 launch and advances Japan’s Society 5.0 push for scalable hybrid supercomputing.
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