$5M NSF Grant Funds Rigetti-HPE Hybrid Quantum-Classical Supercomputer

The NSF awards $5 million to fund TangleLab, a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing testbed at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, combining Rigetti's 9-qubit Novera system with HPE's classical HPC infrastructure to accelerate practical quantum computing research and enterprise applications.

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