QCI
Update 02 / 2025
++ AFQC 2025 registration ++ World of Quantum ++ QCI Enabling Services ++ News
The most important news first: the location and date of our annual AFQC exchange forum have been confirmed: 23 June at Kunst Block Balve in Munich. New format, more impact, together with our friends from Munich Quantum Valley. The registration page is now available. Visit qci.dlr.de/afqc2025 for all updates.
Second best news: We’ll be very present at this year’s World of Quantum, also in Munich – starting the day after AFQC 2025. Meet us in A2.610, get a coffee and become part of our bubbly and exciting ecosystem. We’ll showcase our QCI Enabling Services, industrial use cases and lots and lots of ideas how to use quantum computers.
New hardware
Digital-analogue hybrid computer REDAC
Hardware acceptance tests are always a special event for us. We put months – sometimes years – of work by our industry partners to the test. These are often also premieres for the companies that develop new computers or enabling technologies for us: almost nothing is off the shelf, commercial of the shelf. But of course, at the end of the development process there is still a product that has to survive on the open market. This makes it all the more gratifying when a technologically daring plan comes to fruition – for example with our analogue computer project REDAC from the start-up Anabrid: the first prototype has been accepted and is almost immediately taken up by our application projects for innovative simulations.
Hardware → Applications
QCI Connect: A (worthwhile) challenge in itself
We want to bring the future of compute to where it will have an impact: to research, industry and innovative SMEs. One of our tools for this is the Quantum-as-a-Service platform QCI Connect. We use it to provide our teams and industry partners (and the wider ecosystem in future) with access to our compute resources. According to the current plan, this includes 15 quantum computers with 5 qubit technologies, an analogue computer, plus digital twins, emulators and simulators of our computers + space and demand for new computers and ideas.
25 February 2025
By cooperating with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in our QUANTITY cryptanalysis project, we are supporting the development and dissemination of secure encryption methods in the age of powerful quantum computers.
25 February 2025
Our application projects can also do hardware: because there is a lack of good hardware decoders for quantum error correction, we have commissioned D-fine, Planqc and QC Design to develop this essential component.
6 March 2025
Together with the Hamburg state initiative hqic, we brought start-ups and potential investors together at EXCITE – to our knowledge the first event of its kind in Germany.
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