RIKEN Launches ROQUO Supercomputer for Quantum-HPC Hybrid Computing

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RIKEN Center for Computational Science has launched the ROQUO supercomputer to support the integration of quantum computing and high-performance computing through Japan’s Quantum-HPC

Hybrid Platform. Developed under the JHPC-quantum project, ROQUO achieved 19.80 petaflops in the High Performance LINPACK benchmark during operational testing.

The system is installed in Kobe and is intended to serve as a long-term research platform for advancing quantum-HPC hybrid computing capabilities.

PRESS RELEASE — The Quantum-HPC Hybrid Platform Division (Director: Mitsuhisa Sato) of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (hereafter “R-CCS”) has installed a new JHPC-quantum GPU supercomputer, “ROQUO”, at R-CCS in Kobe and has begun its operation, to accelerate the integration of quantum computing and high-performance computing (HPC).