Quantinuum, Oracle to advance hybrid quantum compute adoption
With Quantinuum’s Helios on OCI, customers can expect to gain managed, secure access to cloud-hosted quantum computing without having to procure, install, or operate dedicated hardware or specialized facilities.
Quantinuum, a US-based quantum computing company, and Oracle have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Under the partnership, OCI customers will be able to directly access Quantinuum’s Helios through OCI’s quantum service, alongside OCI’s high-performance computing (HPC) and GPU infrastructure, Quantinuum said.
Together, Quantinuum and Oracle plan to explore how hybrid quantum-AI infrastructure could address some of the most computationally intensive challenges facing enterprises and broaden access for universities and research institutions advancing scientific discovery and education.
“We believe the next phase of enterprise computing will be shaped by bringing quantum, AI, and high-performance computing together,” said Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, President and CEO of Quantinuum. “Deploying Helios inside OCI gives Quantinuum and Oracle an opportunity to create a unique deeply integrated environment for hybrid workloads, explore enterprise use cases with customers, and accelerate commercial adoption.”
“By bringing Quantinuum’s Helios to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we want to give developers a practical and secure way to explore how quantum computing could complement their existing AI and HPC workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while improving compute efficiency and energy use,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, Executive Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
By operating on-premises within OCI’s infrastructure, Helios is expected to integrate seamlessly with existing OCI compute, networking, storage, identity, and data services under the same governance and access controls customers already use, Quantinuum said.
“QPUs promise to unlock new insights as they are very different from the hardware that we are used to,” said Johannes Blaschke, Head of Scientific Computing, GBI at Ellison Institute of Technology. “So having both GPUs and QPUs available within OCI would provide an all-in-one platform, simplify the operation of novel hardware, and help us move at speed from concept to execution by allowing our researchers to focus on innovation.”
