QC Ware explained

QC Ware
Industry:	Quantum Computing
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Founded:	in Palo Alto, California, U.S.
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Hq Location City:	Palo Alto
Hq Location Country:	United States
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QC Ware is a quantum-computing-as-a-service company based in Palo Alto, California.

History

QC Ware was founded in 2014 by Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll after Johnson met a group of researchers at NASA Ames interested in quantum computing.^{[1] [2]}

In 2018, QC Ware was one of the first testers of Google's Cirq framework, publicly demonstrating an implementation of the QAOA algorithm on a simulator.^[3]

Services

In 2019, QC Ware launched Forge, a cloud platform that aims to allow developers to run algorithms on hardware provided by multiple vendors. As of the launch, the platform offered access to a D-Wave quantum computer, but only simulations of Google and IBM machines.^[4]

Q2B conference

QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference. The first Q2B was hosted in 2017.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Knapp . Alex . QC Ware Joins The Growing Ranks Of Companies Offering Quantum Cloud Computing Services . Forbes . 29 October 2019 . en.
2. Web site: QC Ware — Quantum Computing Companies . Quantum Zeitgeist . 31 October 2019 . 16 August 2019.
3. Web site: Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms . Google AI Blog . 29 October 2019 . en.
4. Web site: Frederic . Lardinois . QC Ware Forge will give developers access to quantum hardware and simulators across vendors . TechCrunch . 25 September 2019 . 29 October 2019.
5. Web site: QC Ware Announces Q2B 2019: Practical Quantum Computing Conference December 10 - 12 (Press release) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20191029225632/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qc-ware-announces-q2b-2019-140000805.html . 2019-10-29 . finance.yahoo.com . 29 October 2019.