RE: Quantum29 Dec 2021 15:49
Refresh on the IT INFRASTRUCTURE deployed in December.
QBT has made available to its team members the most advanced IT facilities, located in a data center in Northern Italy, which include CPUs with more than 256 cores, GPUs in excess of 30,000 cores, several Terabytes of RAM and 2 Petabytes of storage for the very large big data being analysed. Moreover, cloud access to D-Wave’s 5,000 qubit quantum computer and other cloud computing facilities, make the development environment a state-of-the-art IT development platform for QBT’s R&D Team.
The heart of the classic computing facility is the machine learning engine with more than 30,000 GPU cores available, more than 200 CPU cores and a very big data of more than 2 Petabyte of memory, with several tens of l CPU cores which supports the Bitcoin mining network infrastructure, for solo mining and proprietary pool mining.
Different FPGA chips are currently being tested, which play different roles in the Bitcoin mining optimisation process.
The quantum computing facility, available on the Cloud, is represented by the 5,000 qubits and 75,000 qubit interconnections, available on D-Wave’s quantum computer, which will be upgraded in 2022 to 7,000 quits and 140,000 quit connections.
Local integration between the classic computing facility and the cloud quantum computing, provide an additional advanced hybrid computing system layer, on top of the one already provided by D-Wave, making it possible to pre-process and post-process, in real time, computations carried by the quantum computer.
Moreover, QBT has selected software systems, in particular, neural network models, either commercial, public domain, or proprietary, as key research elements, which are combined with data pre-processing and post processing tools. A number of advanced compilers are being used, including some for the optimal allocation of tasks on multi-core systems, together with a VHDL platform for FPGA programming environments and solo, or pool mining nodes, in the software environment.
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