Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce Lead 4-Partner Quantum-HPC Turbine Design Project
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Updated · ENGINEERING.com · Jul 14
Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce Lead 4-Partner Quantum-HPC Turbine Design Project
3 articles · Updated · ENGINEERING.com · Jul 14
Summary
A four-way UK collaboration will test hybrid quantum-HPC workflows for fluid dynamics simulations used in gas turbine design, in what the companies expect to be a multi-year effort.
Complex turbine airflow models demand heavy computing power as detail increases, and the partners aim to see whether fault-tolerant quantum systems can work alongside supercomputers to ease that bottleneck.
Quantinuum will supply its Helios quantum computer and software, with tests aimed at computational building blocks that could later scale to planned systems including Sol and Apollo.
Rolls-Royce is providing industrial design use cases, Riverlane quantum error-correction and algorithm expertise, and EPCC supercomputing integration for compiling, emulating and splitting workloads across classical and quantum resources.
The project aligns with the UK's quantum mission to build teraQuOp machines capable of 1 trillion error-free operations and marks a push from foundational research toward industrial hybrid applications.