LYRA : A Modular path towards Industrialised and Scalable Quantum Networking

LYRA：通往工业化和可扩展量子网络的模块化道路

• 批准号: 10085813
• 金额: $ 285.21万
• 依托单位: NU QUANTUM LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10085813
• 关键词: LYRA; Modular; path; towards; Industrialised

Credible sources estimate the Quantum Computing (QC) market will have a market value of $90-$170B annually in a Fault Tolerant era. It is increasingly accepted that to reach commercial viability, Quantum Networks (QNs), will be needed to scale QC - increasing the number and quality of qubits. The timely development of QNs will thus gate the widespread adoption of QC and the transformative benefits it can bring. Ultimately QNs will be as essential to QC as classical networking is to High Performance and Cloud computing.Currently, advancements in Quantum Networking are academically driven experiments in highly controlled laboratory environments. While essential to improving state-of-the-art performance metrics, they neglect crucial factors that will allow for real-world deployment in more industrial and IT-like environments, where they will ultimately need to operate _resiliently_ and at _large scale_.Project LYRA accelerates and de-risks the path to _deployable_ and _scalable_ quantum-networking specifically for the use-case of interconnecting Quantum Computing nodes in data-centres.The project concentrates on _pragmatic_ and _demonstrable_ improvements in the _packaging_ and _usability_ of quantum networking technologies, while still maintaining appropriately high levels of performance. We will deliver a world-first deployable Quantum Networking Unit prototype, the networking heart of a Quantum Computer Cluster.Cisco will be the End User for this project. As the world's leading supplier of classical networking, Cisco has unparalleled experience in delivering scalable, resilient and performant data-centre services. Cisco have committed to contribute to, and **underwrite, key system requirements** and **evaluate final deliverables**, potentially at a UK facility.Additionally, to demonstrate product-market fit and to ensure the construction of an extensible & relevant roadmap, Nu Quantum have assembled a Customer Requirements Council (CRC). The 5-party CRC represents leading QC vendors and global data-centre technology providers.

可靠消息来源估计，在容错时代，量子计算 (QC) 市场每年的市场价值将达到 $90-$170B。人们越来越认识到，为了实现商业可行性，需要量子网络 (QN) 来扩展 QC——增加量子位的数量和质量。因此，QN 的及时发展将促进质量控制的广泛采用及其带来的变革性效益。最终，量子网络对于质量控制的重要性，就像经典网络对于高性能和云计算的重要性一样。目前，量子网络的进步是在高度受控的实验室环境中进行的学术驱动的实验。虽然对于提高最先进的性能指标至关重要，但它们忽略了允许在更多工业和类似 IT 的环境中进行实际部署的关键因素，在这些环境中它们最终需要“弹性地”和“大规模”运行。 LYRA 项目加速并降低通往“可部署”和“可扩展”量子网络的路径，专门用于数据中心互连量子计算节点的用例。该项目专注于量子网络技术的_封装_和_可用性_方面_务实_且_可论证_改进，同时仍然保持适当的高水平性能。我们将提供世界上第一个可部署的量子网络单元原型，它是量子计算机集群的网络核心。思科将成为该项目的最终用户。作为全球领先的经典网络供应商，思科在提供可扩展、有弹性和高性能的数据中心服务方面拥有无与伦比的经验。思科已承诺可能在英国工厂为关键系统要求做出贡献，并**承保关键系统要求**并评估最终交付成果**。此外，为了展示产品与市场的契合度并确保构建可扩展且相关的系统根据路线图，Nu Quantum 组建了客户需求委员会 (CRC)。 5 方 CRC 代表领先的 QC 供应商和全球数据中心技术提供商。