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We are looking forward to attending the UK’s Quantum Data Centre of the Future project,  at BT’s Adastral Park, Ipswich, 27th-28th February 2024.  The event will unveil its vision and showcase technology demonstrations to a broad audience of businesses, universities, data centre providers and users.

Led by ORCA Computing and supported by a consortium of 14 organisations and universities, this ground-breaking initiative, backed by Innovate UK, aims to develop a vision for how quantum communication and computing systems can integrate with classical data centres.

With BT and KETS leading the architecture and communications, respectively, the project aims to nurture the development of practical computing and security applications while establishing a blueprint for the quantum data centre of the future.

We are proud to partner the event alongside Riverlane, NCC Group, BP, Digital Catapult, National Composites Centre (NCC), University College London, University of Bristol, Imperial College London, University of Bath and University of Southampton. Central to the event will be the presentation of an initial hybrid quantum-classical data centre architecture and the introduction of the project’s quantum technology access course, setting the stage for a series of state-of-the-art technology demonstrations, including:

● ORCA Computings’s PT-1 series photonic quantum computer running a machine learning algorithm with GPUs, involving the NVIDIA CUDA quantum demo.
● KETS and PQShield demonstrating hybrid QKD/PQC point to point link and entropy as a service with integrated post quantum cryptography.
● Riverlane’s Discover resource estimation tool which provides estimates for the number of qubits and time required for running a Computational Fluid Dynamics application on a fault-tolerant quantum computer.
● Bath’s hollow core optical fibre cell, which has been designed and fabricated for use in quantum memory.
● Bristol’s integration of different quantum key distribution (QKD) solutions, facilitating both intra-data centre and multi-access security.
● UCL’s work on the accuracy of computation when distributing a task among several quantum computers.

The Quantum Data Centre of the Future project represents a significant step towards developing a quantum internet capable of seamlessly managing digital information and transforming the efficiency and capabilities of our existing internet infrastructure.