Programming for scale with Azure Quantum

The power of Azure, accelerated by Quantum.  Quantum computers are accelerators to large-scale classical compute and receive instructions and cues from classical processors.  The success of quantum computation requires seamless integration in a high-performance cloud, to enable hyperscale workloads with complex, hybrid quantum-classical processing.  It also requires scaling up; commercial quantum advantage will require more than 1M physical qubits, and the software stack must enable efficient performance of the quantum machine.  This quantum-classical compute fabric promises to help remake our global economy, by offering new capabilities to help solve some of our planet’s biggest challenges—in energy, climate, agriculture, and health—and across a broad span of industrial sectors, including computational chemistry, materials science, and nuclear and particle physics.  I’ll share the types of problems such an industrial-scale quantum machine will accelerate in the cloud, and how you can program and develop towards these advances today with Azure Quantum.  I’ll also share how co-design of the software stack and the hardware device can enable significant advances toward scaling up.