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QCentroid and QPerfect Partner to Accelerate Enterprise Quantum Computing

Strasbourg, 19 September – QCentroid, the pioneering Quantum-as-a-Service platform provider, and QPerfect, a leading European deep-tech company specializing in quantum computing solutions, today announced a partnership to make quantum computing more accessible and practical for businesses.

This collaboration combines QCentroid’s powerful Quantum Ops platform with QPerfect’s unique virtual quantum computer, MIMIQ 1.0, to deliver an unparalleled quantum experience to enterprises. By integrating MIMIQ’s capabilities into the QCentroid platform, businesses can now seamlessly access, test, customize, benchmark, and deploy quantum applications at an unprecedented scale.

Bridging the Quantum Gap

Many organizations are eager to explore quantum computing’s potential but face barriers like cost and complexity. This partnership addresses these challenges by combining QPerfect’s advanced MIMIQ virtual quantum computer with QCentroid’s enterprise-focused QuantumOps platform.

MIMIQ: Next-Gen Quantum Simulation

MIMIQ allows businesses to design, test, and optimize large-scale quantum algorithms, effectively simulating the power of future quantum computers today. This empowers organizations to benchmark for quantum advantage and prepare for the upcoming fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) revolution.

QCentroid: Simplifying Quantum for the Enterprise

QCentroid’s QuantumOps platform provides rapid access to quantum experimentation, enterprise-grade security, and seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure. Together with MIMIQ, it creates a unified ecosystem for businesses to explore quantum solutions efficiently and securely.

Partnership Benefits

  • Immediate access to MIMIQ next-gen quantum capabilities on the QuantumOps platform.
  • Curated catalog of pre-built, MIMIQ-powered use cases.
  • Seamless enterprise deployment of quantum solutions.
  • Accelerated learning curve for businesses across industries.

Why It Matters

This partnership significantly lowers the barriers to quantum computing adoption, enabling businesses to:

  • Reduce time-to-value for quantum initiatives
  • Minimize technology risk through large-scale experimentation
  • Gain a competitive edge by preparing for the quantum computing future

Executive Perspectives

Philippe Blot, CEO of QPerfect, commented on the partnership, “This collaboration with QCentroid is a key milestone in making quantum computing practical and accessible to businesses. By integrating our MIMIQ technology into their QuantumOps platform, we’re empowering enterprises to experiment and innovate with quantum algorithms at an unprecedented scale, accelerating their path to quantum advantage and the future of fault-tolerant quantum computing.”

Carlos Kuchkovsky, CEO and co-founder of QCentroid, added, “The integration of QPerfect’s MIMIQ technology with our QuantumOps platform represents a significant step forward in enterprise quantum computing. This partnership enables businesses to bypass many of the current limitations in quantum hardware, allowing them to experiment with large-scale quantum algorithms today. By providing this capability, we’re helping organizations build quantum readiness, optimize their processes, and gain a competitive edge in preparation for the era of fault-tolerant quantum computing.”

Looking Ahead

In the coming months, QCentroid and QPerfect will further integrate their technologies, offering a unified platform that seamlessly blends MIMIQ’s capabilities with QCentroid’s Quantum Ops features. This integration will enable businesses to leverage the full power of quantum computing, from experimentation to production deployment.

Contact: 

Gregory Shutko, gregory@qcentroid.xyz

Georges Le Nigen, georges.lenigen@qperfect.io 

About QCentroid

QCentroid is a leading next-generation computing platform provider. It empowers businesses to use the best computational approaches for a given problem, optimizing business efficiency and net zero goals at the same time. When it comes to quantum computing, the QCentroid platform offers the first-of-its-kind Quantum Ops features to streamline the entire quantum application lifecycle, enabling businesses to focus on innovation and value creation. By hiding the quantum complexity and empowering users with intuitive AI tools and clear workflows, QCentroid transforms how quantum experimentation is done, from months to weeks, enabling companies to get to utility and their net zero objectives faster. 

Ready to explore advanced computing opportunities today and future-proof your business for tomorrow? Schedule a demo today, and follow us on LinkedIn. 

About QPerfect

QPerfect, a pioneering quantum computing start-up based in France, is driving advancements that accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing. The company is at the forefront of designing, simulating, and optimizing quantum computers through its innovative hardware and software solutions. QPerfect’s virtual quantum computer, MIMIQ, is revolutionizing the field by enabling large-scale simulations of quantum computing systems. Capable of executing quantum algorithms on up to thousands of physical qubits, MIMIQ sets a new benchmark in the industry. Building upon MIMIQ, and with a specific focus on neutral atom quantum computers, QPerfect is developing comprehensive software and hardware solutions. These solutions aim to provide end users with quantum computing services and propel quantum computers towards fault-tolerance.

Explore how QPerfect is leading us towards the revolution of fault-tolerant quantum computing at www.qperfect.io and follow us on LinkedIn.

QCentroid at the FIO2022

QCentroid at the FIO2022
Carlos from QCentroid, on the right, with Javier González from Quantum Mads, Enrique Solano from Quanvia and Valentín García from Lantik Bizkaia at FIO2022
Carlos from QCentroid, on the right, with Javier González from Quantum Mads, Enrique Solano from Quanvia and Valentín García from Lantik Bizkaia.

Our CEO, Carlos Kuchkovsky took part in a roundtable discussion at the “Future for Industries 2022” event organized by Foundry, IDC Spain. Carlos joined a select group of industry leaders to delve into the impact of quantum computing on various industries and the results were phenomenal.

Carlos’ insightful and thought-provoking comments received high praise from the audience, who appreciated his expert perspectives on the future of quantum computing and its impact on different industries. The roundtable discussion was a lively exchange of ideas and a testament to Bob’s knowledge and passion for this exciting field.

QCentroid represented the cutting edge of quantum computing at this important industry event.

#FIO2022

Effortlessly integrate Quantum Hardware, execute Quantum Algorithms, and compare results with our advanced tools.

  • Easily upload and execute quantum algorithms on a wide range of quantum hardware.
  • Seamless integration with existing IT systems through APIs, SDKs and Smart contracts.
  • Comprehensive monitoring and analysis tools to optimize algorithm performance and cost.
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing model for flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
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Connecting Quantum computing to Web3. A tech approach.

No-code quantum algorithms execution with the QCentroid Platform

In this article we’re going to go through the requirements, the challenges and the solutions adopted to connect the Ethereum blockchain to the QCentroid Quantum Solutions Platform.

Due to the nature of blockchain ecosystems, accessing off-chain data from on-chain smart contracts is not natively possible. However, oracles like Chainlink provide this bridge between on-chain and off-chain data. Oracles enable smart contracts to retrieve data from the outside world.

Architecture

The QCentroid Platform is accessible through an authenticated REST API, just like almost any other platform out there.

To access our platform from the blockchain, we decided to use ChainLink oracle platform.

Due to the nature of quantum computing, the QCentroid platform works in an asynchronous mode, which means that the result of a computation request is not returned right away in the response. Instead, a Job Id is returned to be used later to check the job status and to obtain the result.

This asynchronous behavior adds a layer of complexity to the whole workflow from the smart contract, through the oracle, to the Quantum Platform and back.

But, before we enter in detail into this workflow, let’s see the architecture that we have deployed and all the components that we need.

This diagram shows all the components involved:

  • The user’s smart contract
  • The QCentroid Quantum provider smart contract
  • ChainLink Oracle
  • A ChainLink node
  • The External Adapters
  • The QCentroid Platform
  • ChainLink keepers

Depending on your application, you will not always need all these components. In our case, I would like to highlight four of these components and why we decided to deploy, run and operate them ourselves.

The QCentroid provider smart contract simplifies the access to the oracle to the final users. A final user smart contract only needs a call to this provider contract and a callback function  instead of extending the Chainlink client contract and the use of LINK tokens, oracle address and job ids. This provider smart contract manages all this.

If you need to use authentication to access an API you are going to need an External Adapter. This may already exist if you’re accessing a well known API, such as GitHub or Twitter, but if you are trying to connect to your own API or to a not so common API, you’ll have to build your own adapter.

Becoming a ChainLink node operator is not a trivial task, it’s a job itself. In our case, our own ChainLink node is needed to control the access to the Platform API. As the credentials to access the API are managed at the External Adapter, now we need a mechanism to control the access to this external adapter. The way to do this in the ChainLink platform is through address whitelisting at node level. This is why we decided to run and operate our own ChainLink node to be able to manage the list of approved addresses.

ChainLink Keepers provide decentralized and highly reliable smart contract automation. Due to the asynchronous nature of the QCentroid Quantum Platform we make use of ChainLink Keepers to poll the status of the ongoing jobs and fetch the result whenever it is ready.

These four components may or may not be needed by your application, but now you know the role they play in the ecosystem and you can decide whether you need them or not. 

For most of these components you’ll find tons of information and tutorials on how to build and deploy them. Here are the resources that we used at QCentroid to build our ecosystem.

To start building our own External Adapter, we used the Chainlink NodeJS External Adapter Template by Thomas as a starting point. This adapter is written in NodeJS and allows you to run it locally, as a Docker service or serverless (using AWS Lambda for example).
The API-specific values are configured as environment variables, so they are not hardcoded and they can be easily filled by your CI/CD workflow.

Building and running your own ChainLink Node for development purposes is also a relatively simple task relying on the resources shared with us by ChainLink, like the ChainLink SmartContract Kit. There you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to build and run a ChainLink node. Setting up the node for operational purposes is where things start to get complicated and would be subject for another article. 

Workflow

Now that we know what all these elements are, what they are for and how to build and run them, let’s have a look at a full workflow, from the initial request from a user’s smart contract to the reception of the solution from the Platform.

This workflow shows the different components described earlier and how and when they are involved in the process and they’re role.

It’s important to mention that our main objective when designing this architecture was to simplify as much as possible the work needed by our smart contract end users. The diagram clearly shows how few “arrows” are needed on the left and how our users only need to focus on their business. As the workflow moves to the right, we can see how the components involved in the architecture handle the tedious tasks such as authentication or polling for the results.

For our end users, using Quantum computing from a smart contract is as easy as: “here is my data, here is your result”.

With this article, we wanted to show our specific use case of a hybrid on-chain/off-chain architecture and how we’ve approached the connection between these two worlds using ChainLink’s breakthrough oracle technology.

Effortlessly integrate Quantum Hardware, execute Quantum Algorithms, and compare results with our advanced tools.

  • Easily upload and execute quantum algorithms on a wide range of quantum hardware.
  • Seamless integration with existing IT systems through APIs, SDKs and Smart contracts.
  • Comprehensive monitoring and analysis tools to optimize algorithm performance and cost.
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing model for flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
Book a demo
Discover the platform