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Quantum Brilliance Pawsey Accelerator
Quantum Brilliance Pawsey Accelerator is a other quantum computer operated by Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Australia. It has 2 physical qubits. It ranks 2 of 2 other machines in this table by physical qubit count. 8 sourced specs are in the spec sheet. No benchmark figures are recorded for it yet.
A two-qubit Quantum Brilliance diamond accelerator installed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth in June 2022, described as the first room-temperature quantum computer in a supercomputing facility. It was being tested alongside Pawsey's Setonix supercomputer for classical-quantum co-processing. It is a very small research device and its current status was not checked.
Co-located supercomputer: Setonix. This machine is integrated with, or hosted beside, that system.
Spec sheet
Technical details as the builder or a paper states them, each with its own source. A blank is a fact we could not source, not a zero. Fidelity and coherence figures are in the benchmark table below.
| Spec | Value | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | Two-qubit rack-mounted diamond quantum accelerator | Vendor reported | Described by CSIRO in June 2022 as a rack-mounted diamond accelerator; Optica calls the QDK a two-qubit rack-mountable prototype. | csiro.auoptica-opn.org |
| Qubit type | Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre nuclear spin in synthetic diamond | Vendor reported | Optica describes optically addressable nuclear spins at NV centres; EE Asia describes NV centres in synthetic diamond with microwave control. | optica-opn.orgeetasia.com |
| Cooling and environment | Room temperature operation, no cryogenics | Vendor reported | CSIRO says it runs at room temperature in any environment and Optica says it needs no cryogenic cooling or complex laser setup. | csiro.auoptica-opn.org |
| Fabrication | Quantum Brilliance synthetic diamond with proprietary NV placement process | Vendor reported | Optica describes a lithography-like process placing defects at atomic scale; the Pawsey 2022 unit's exact fabrication was not detailed. | optica-opn.orgeetasia.com |
| Software | Qristal SDK (open source) and Qristal Emulator on NVIDIA CUDA-Q | Vendor reported | Family-wide: Qristal was launched in 2023, after the June 2022 Pawsey install, and the Pawsey pages read name no software. | thequantuminsider.comoptica-opn.org |
| Access and pricing | On-site rack-mounted accelerator at Pawsey for hybrid HPC testing alongside Setonix | Vendor reported | Research and diagnostics testbed announced in June 2022; no external user access or price was found. | csiro.authequantuminsider.com |
| Successor | Quantum Brilliance QB-QDK 2.0 | Vendor reported | The second-generation 19-inch rack-mountable NV diamond kit, described in a November 2024 article. | thequantuminsider.com |
| Roadmap | Next phase deploys a physical quantum processor on Pawsey's Setonix hybrid workflow | Vendor reported | Converge Digest (9 March 2025) describes a vQPU workflow with a physical processor in future phases, so the current status of the 2022 hardware is unclear. | convergedigest.comcsiro.au |
Timeline
- 2022-06-03: Announced
- 2022-06: First operational
- 2022-06-03: Status checked: operational
Comparable other machines
Closest in physical qubit count within the same technology. Counts of different qubit types are not interchangeable across technologies.
| Machine | Operator | Qubits | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Majorana 1 | Microsoft | 8 | operational |