QC Ware
{{short description|Quantum computing company}}
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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.{{cite web |last1=Knapp |first1=Alex |title=QC Ware Joins The Growing Ranks Of Companies Offering Quantum Cloud Computing Services |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2019/09/27/qc-ware-joins-the-growing-ranks-of-companies-offering-quantum-computing-cloud-services/#4e5f894f7e57 |website=Forbes |access-date=29 October 2019 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=QC Ware — Quantum Computing Companies |url=https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qc-ware-quantum-computing-companies/ |website=Quantum Zeitgeist |access-date=31 October 2019 |date=16 August 2019 |last1=Explained |first1=Quantumcomputing }}
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.{{cite web |title=Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms |url=https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/announcing-cirq-open-source-framework.html |website=Google AI Blog |access-date=29 October 2019 |language=en}}
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.{{cite web |last1=Frederic |first1=Lardinois |title=QC Ware Forge will give developers access to quantum hardware and simulators across vendors |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/qc-ware-forge-will-give-developers-access-to-quantum-hardware-and-simulators-across-vendors/ |website=TechCrunch |date=25 September 2019 |access-date=29 October 2019}}
Q2B conference
QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference. The first Q2B was hosted in 2017.{{cite web |title=QC Ware Announces Q2B 2019: Practical Quantum Computing Conference December 10 - 12 (Press release) |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qc-ware-announces-q2b-2019-140000805.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029225632/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qc-ware-announces-q2b-2019-140000805.html |archive-date=2019-10-29 |website=finance.yahoo.com |access-date=29 October 2019}}
References
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