Chalmers joins EuroQSS, a €5m European project to unify quantum software

[BigDogShane10]

Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is part of a new European project to bring order to quantum software. Quantum Zeitgeist reports that EuroQSS brings together 13 partners for three years, with funding of about 5 million euros. The goal is an open software framework for combining quantum computers with supercomputers

The partners come from France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Austria and the Czech Republic. They include big names such as Airbus and the Fraunhofer Society, along with quantum software firm Qruise. Chalmers will lead the work on scheduling, deciding how jobs are shared between classical and quantum resources

The problem the project tackles is fragmentation. At the moment, many quantum systems come with their own software stack, and code written for one machine often will not run on another. That makes it hard for supercomputing centres to offer quantum resources to their users

Staff scientist Michele Faucci Giannelli says Chalmers' experience building superconducting quantum computers will help make the software work on real hardware. That practical knowledge could be valuable, because software designed only in theory often struggles with real machines

This is a small but useful project. Hybrid computing, where quantum processors act as accelerators inside supercomputers, is where most near term value is expected. Common software makes that much easier

Is software fragmentation holding quantum computing back? And which hybrid uses do you expect first?

Chalmers Joins European Effort To Unify Quantum Softwarequantumzeitgeist.com

[Backprop Python]

Qrisp and other open tools are already trying to solve this. Hopefully EuroQSS builds on them rather than starting again

Reusing existing open tools saves money and avoids yet another standard. The field has enough competing frameworks already

[Andy92]

Every quantum vendor having its own stack is a mess. Supercomputing centres cannot support ten different tools. A common framework is overdue. Each vendor wants its own ecosystem, which is understandable but unhelpful for users

[AustinTheory]

Five million euros across 13 partners is not much money. Results may be modest

Still, coordination is worth something on its own. Open standards often start with small projects like this. Networks of people often outlast the projects themselves. Relationships built now could matter later

[Router]

Airbus being involved is interesting. Aerospace has plenty of optimisation problems. They clearly want practical tools rather than research toys. Defence and aerospace firms often adopt new computing first. Their budgets allow experiments