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RIKEN Activates ROQUO Supercomputer Integrating Quantinuum's Reimei System and ...
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Fusion42 · 23 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
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.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Quantum Computing, AI Infrastructure and Semiconductors.
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If you build quantum error correction, calibration, or circuit synthesis software, you now have a live testbed with real industrial demand: Mitsubishi Chemical and Mizuho are already running molecular chemistry benchmarks on ROQUO at 13.4x speedup. The move from research to operational deployment means buyers exist—contact RIKEN's R-CCS team this week.
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