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ORNL Installs Room-Temperature Diamond Quantum Cluster to Test Hybrid Supercomputing

The three-module Quantum Brilliance system enters the OLCF testbed to mature practical integration of QPUs into HPC workflows.

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Room Temperature Diamond Integrated Chip Quantum Accelerators Installed At Oak Ridge National Lab

Overview

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory placed a Quantum Brilliance cluster in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Advanced Computing Ecosystem testbed.
  • The installation consists of three Quantum Development Kits with three parallelized QPUs totaling six qubits.
  • Lab teams will use the setup to develop co-scheduling, end-to-end performance tuning, data and workflow orchestration, and workforce training for quantum–HPC integration.
  • Quantum Brilliance’s diamond-based processors operate at room temperature, avoiding cryogenics and reducing size, weight, and power compared with many current quantum systems.
  • ORNL plans trials of hybrid and parallel approaches with application demos in computational chemistry and machine learning, while company leaders and outside reporting describe large-scale deployment and 50+ qubit ambitions as forward-looking claims not validated at ORNL.