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POLARISqb talks with QuBites from Valorem Reply

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We were excited to engage in this fantastic conversation with Rene Schulte about our company and the work that we are doing. He talks with our CEO, Dr. Shahar Keinan, about  utilizing the power of quantum optimization to power the quantum drug discovery we have made in the last three years. The episode talks about the progress in quantum annealers for multi-variable optimization, progress in the sector that is using AI and Machine Learning, and how that progress is integrated into the Tachyon system that POLARISqb has built to accelerate drug design. Dr. Keinan talks about how we are translating chemistry constraints into QUBOs that are able to be used via quantum computing to optimize multiple interconnected variables in ways that conventional high powered computers would still take months or even years to solve.

Quantum Cloud Growth and the Future of Computing
Just a few years ago, truly viable and useful quantum computing was the stuff of legends and campfire tales among computer scientists, but development in the last year has led to an explosion of quantum resources available to companies in the cloud. The evolution of the quantum machine has been accelerated by the development of…
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Fujitsu Highlights POLARISqb as a Tech Innovator Driving Digital Transformation

Last year Polarisqb  began our journey to revolutionize the world of drug discovery by using the most advanced computers on the planet to perform in silico protein targeting at speeds never before thought possible. One of our most important partners in this new venture was Fujitsu, who had developed the most sophisticated Digital Annealing Computer on the planet.

PolarisQB was featured as an innovative customer in Fujitsu's eBook on driving digital transformation.

Using this machine that can reach near quantum speeds we designed our Tachyon platform that is able to perform complex simulations of molecular and chemical reactions that provide crucial information to scientists and researchers who are working to develop treatments and cures for diseases that affect billions of people around the globe.

Fujitsu has recognized this work in an eBook titled Driving Digital Transformation with our Customers along with five other companies that are utilizing high powered computers to drive innovation in the fields of logistics, finance, fashion, food supply, and aerospace. Read more about our work and the other customers who made the list below.

Fujitsu: Driving Digital Transformation With Our Customers

D-Wave Takes Giant Leap in Computing with Advantage

Everyone in computing is familiar with the idea of Moore's Law, that computing power doubles every two years, but quantum computing could be making that premise a bit of an anachronism. Recently growth in the field of quantum computing has been accelerating at a rate that makes this seem like an antiquated adage of a simpler time.

This is especially evident in the news this week that D-Wave systems have released the first quantum computer designed to be used in commercial applications, The Advantage. The Advantage features 5000 connected qubits, a number that Frederic Lardinois from TechCrunch notes is over 2.5 times as large as their previous offering of 2000 connected qubits. This larger hardware is able to interconnect 15 interconnections simultaneously versus utilizing 6 interconnections in previous iterations.

These changes create a massive explosion in the computing power offered by the Advantage computer, giving it the ability to handle up to 1 million independent variables. Using their advanced Pegasus chip to link qubits, the computer is able to natively solve problems with between 600-800 variables, providing for a wide variety of commercial applications. As D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz told Emil Protalinski of Venture Beat, "There is no other quantum computer anywhere in the world that can solve problems at the scale and complexity that this quantum computer can solve problems. It really is the only one that you can run real business applications on. The other quantum computers are primarily prototypes. You can do experimentation, run small proofs of concept, but none of them can support applications at the scale that we can.

Putting computing power like this in the hands of innovators, researchers, and companies that are seeking to solve previously unsolvable problems is tremendously empowering. POLARISqb will have the ability to utilize platforms like the Advantage to power chemical and molecular searches on a scale that was previously unfathomable in the industry, optimizing the pace of drug discovery in ways never seen in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. With the pace of innovation in the world of quantum expected to continue and accelerate, it is our goal to make molecular analysis and protein targeting faster than ever before, developing the ability to provide treatments and cures for all diseases and all people.