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This article matters because it marks one of the first large‑scale collaborations to embed a commercial quantum processor directly into an HPC environment, giving researchers a real‑world platform for developing and testing quantum‑classical co‑design techniques. By pairing Rigetti’s superconducting qubits with HPE’s supercomputing infrastructure at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, TangleLab will accelerate work on error mitigation, workflow orchestration, and application benchmarking that have so far been limited to isolated labs. The NSF’s $5 million investment underscores growing government support for hybrid systems, though practical impact will depend on how quickly software stacks can bridge the latency and scaling gaps between quantum chips and classical nodes.
— Mark Eatherly
Summary
Quantum computing developer Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) has partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)—a joint center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh—to construct TangleLab, a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing testbed. Funded by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Advanced Computing Systems [...] The post Rigetti, HPE, and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Partner to Build “TangleLab” Hybrid Testbed appeared first on Quantum Computing Report .