QC Ware is a quantum-computing-as-a-service company based in

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History

QC Ware was founded in 2014 by Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll after Johnson met a group of researchers at

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Ames interested in quantum computing. In 2018, QC Ware was one of the first testers of

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framework, publicly demonstrating an implementation of the QAOA algorithm on a simulator.

Services

In 2019, QC Ware launched Forge, a cloud platform that aims to allow developers to run algorithms on hardware provided by multiple vendors. As of the launch, the platform offered access to a D-Wave quantum computer, but only simulations of Google and IBM machines.

Q2B conference

QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference. The first Q2B was hosted in 2017.

References

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