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Quantum Brilliance Pawsey Accelerator
Quantum Brilliance Pawsey Accelerator is a other quantum computer operated by Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Australia. It has 2 physical qubits. It ranks 2 of 2 other machines in this table by physical qubit count. 8 sourced specs are in the spec sheet. No benchmark figures are recorded for it yet.
A two-qubit Quantum Brilliance diamond accelerator installed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth in June 2022, described as the first room-temperature quantum computer in a supercomputing facility. It was being tested alongside Pawsey's Setonix supercomputer for classical-quantum co-processing. Current status is uncertain and the sources conflict: a March 2025 Pawsey release and Converge Digest article describe a hybrid GPU, CPU and quantum workflow that uses Quantum Brilliance's virtual QPU, with deployment on Setonix with a physical quantum processor listed as a future phase, and Pawsey's current Access Quantum page lists simulation plus Amazon Braket hardware and does not list the diamond accelerator. No source confirms the 2022 device is still in service, so the 2022 operational status is kept until clarified.
Co-located supercomputer: Setonix. This machine is integrated with, or hosted beside, that system.
Spec sheet
Technical details as the builder or a paper states them, each with its own source. A blank is a fact we could not source, not a zero. Fidelity and coherence figures are in the benchmark table below.
| Spec | Value | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | Two-qubit rack-mounted diamond quantum accelerator | Vendor reported | Described by CSIRO in June 2022 as a rack-mounted diamond accelerator; Optica calls the QDK a two-qubit rack-mountable prototype. | csiro.auoptica-opn.org |
| Qubit type | Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre nuclear spin in synthetic diamond | Vendor reported | Optica describes optically addressable nuclear spins at NV centres; EE Asia describes NV centres in synthetic diamond with microwave control. | optica-opn.orgeetasia.com |
| Cooling and environment | Room temperature operation, no cryogenics | Vendor reported | CSIRO says it runs at room temperature in any environment and Optica says it needs no cryogenic cooling or complex laser setup. | csiro.auoptica-opn.org |
| Fabrication | Quantum Brilliance synthetic diamond with proprietary NV placement process | Vendor reported | Optica describes a lithography-like process placing defects at atomic scale; the Pawsey 2022 unit's exact fabrication was not detailed. | optica-opn.orgeetasia.com |
| Software | Qristal SDK (open source) and Qristal Emulator on NVIDIA CUDA-Q | Vendor reported | Family-wide: Qristal was launched in 2023, after the June 2022 Pawsey install, and the Pawsey pages read name no software. | thequantuminsider.comoptica-opn.org |
| Access and pricing | On-site rack-mounted accelerator at Pawsey for hybrid HPC testing alongside Setonix | Vendor reported | Research and diagnostics testbed announced in June 2022; no external user access or price was found. | csiro.authequantuminsider.com |
| Successor | Quantum Brilliance QB-QDK 2.0 | Vendor reported | The second-generation 19-inch rack-mountable NV diamond kit, described in a November 2024 article. | thequantuminsider.com |
| Roadmap | Next phase deploys a physical quantum processor on Pawsey's Setonix hybrid workflow | Vendor reported | Converge Digest (9 March 2025) describes a vQPU workflow with a physical processor in future phases, so the current status of the 2022 hardware is unclear. | convergedigest.comcsiro.au |
Timeline
- 2022-06-03: Announced
- 2022-06: First operational
- 2022-06-03: Status checked: operational
Comparable other machines
Closest in physical qubit count within the same technology. Counts of different qubit types are not interchangeable across technologies.
| Machine | Operator | Qubits | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Majorana 1 | Microsoft | 8 | operational |