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This article marks a major step toward large‑scale quantum‑classical co‑processing by showing how Japan’s flagship RIKEN institute is now running ROQUU, a hybrid system that couples Quantinuum’s trapped‑ion Reimei processor with an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU cluster and links directly to the world‑record Fugaku supercomputer. By integrating on‑premises quantum hardware into a high‑performance computing environment, researchers can benchmark real‑world quantum workloads at unprecedented scale and begin developing algorithms that exploit both quantum speed‑up and classical parallelism. The effort also demonstrates how national research programs are moving from isolated quantum testbeds toward production‑grade infrastructures, though practical advantage will still depend on overcoming error rates and scaling the ion‑trap platform.
— Mark Eatherly
Summary
Japan’s flagship research institute, RIKEN, has initiated operations for ROQUO, a new hybrid Quantum-HPC supercomputer located at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe. Constructed under the Japanese government's JHPC-quantum project, ROQUO connects directly to on-premises quantum hardware—including Quantinuum’s trapped-ion Reimei system installed at RIKEN's campus—and is linked to Japan’s flagship Fugaku supercomputer. [...] The post RIKEN Activates ROQUO Supercomputer Integrating Quantinuum’s Reimei System and NVIDIA Blackwell Cluster appeared first on Quantum Computing Report .