HPE and Rigetti Computing have announced plans to jointly deploy a hybrid quantum-classical computer at the TangleLab supercomputing testbed, set to be housed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC).
Funded by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the testbed will feature a supercomputer powered by a 9-qubit Novera quantum computer integrated with a classical high-performance computing system.
Rigetti quantum processor – Rigetti
Rigetti launched its Novera QPU, the company’s first commercially available quantum processing unit, in December 2023.
Built at Rigetti’s Fab-1 facility in Fremont, California, the Novera QPU includes a 9-qubit chip with turntable couplers for fast 2-qubit operations and a 5-qubit chip for testing single-qubit operations. The Novera QPU is based on Rigetti’s fourth-generation Ankaa-class architecture, which was first unveiled in August 2023.
