Dell has installed a dedicated HPC server cluster inside Diraq’s Sydney lab, co-locating classical compute with Diraq’s silicon spin-qubit hardware to test real-time quantum-classical execution.
The collaboration targets a key bottleneck in commercial quantum deployment: cutting interconnect latency and orchestration friction so QPUs can operate as accelerators alongside standard HPC and AI infrastructure.
Initial work centers on adapting Dell software to automate qubit calibration, tuning, measurement processing and near-term quantum error-correction loops without bespoke control models.
Diraq is pitching the setup as enterprise-friendly because its silicon spin qubits use CMOS-compatible processes, with the partners evaluating applications in optimization, supply chains, portfolio modeling and AI-driven drug discovery.
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