QC Ware

QC Ware

Industry	Quantum Computing
Founded	2014;11 years ago (2014) in Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Headquarters	Palo Alto , United States

QC Ware is a quantum-computing-as-a-service company based in Palo Alto, California.

History

QC Ware was founded in 2014 by Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll after Johnson met a group of researchers at NASA Ames interested in quantum computing. ^{[1] [2]}

In 2018, QC Ware was one of the first testers of Google's Cirq framework, publicly demonstrating an implementation of the QAOA algorithm on a simulator. ^[3]

Services

In 2019, QC Ware launched Forge, a cloud platform that aims to allow developers to run algorithms on hardware provided by multiple vendors. As of the launch, the platform offered access to a D-Wave quantum computer, but only simulations of Google and IBM machines. ^[4]

Q2B conference

QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference. The first Q2B was hosted in 2017. ^[5]

References

1. Knapp, Alex. "QC Ware Joins The Growing Ranks Of Companies Offering Quantum Cloud Computing Services". Forbes. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
2. Explained, Quantumcomputing (16 August 2019). "QC Ware — Quantum Computing Companies". Quantum Zeitgeist. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
3. "Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms". Google AI Blog. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
4. Frederic, Lardinois (25 September 2019). "QC Ware Forge will give developers access to quantum hardware and simulators across vendors". TechCrunch. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
5. "QC Ware Announces Q2B 2019: Practical Quantum Computing Conference December 10 - 12 (Press release)". finance.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2019-10-29. Retrieved 29 October 2019.