RIKEN Activates ROQUO Supercomputer Integrating Quantinuum's Reimei System and ...

RIKEN has activated ROQUO, a hybrid quantum-HPC supercomputer integrating Quantinuum's trapped-ion Reimei system, 540 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, and IBM Quantum hardware under Japan's government-backed JHPC-quantum project. The system is operationalizing quantum error correction, evolutionary AI circuit synthesis, and molecular chemistry workloads, with early demonstrations showing 13.4x speedup over CPU baselines in spectral analysis.

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