Show HN: Open-source distributed quantum compute network(quip.network)
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Show HN: Open-source distributed quantum compute network
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What does it mean to have a distributed quantum computer? Because if these distributed quantum computers are connected by classical communication channels (e.g. the internet), then it has been proven that this cannot provide any quantum speedup over just a single quantum computer.
See Jozsa & Linden 2003: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201143
So to actually get a quantum speedup, these quantum computers will need to be connected with quantum channels, which are possible IRC with fiber optic links (eg. by using the quantum state of the photons). But that is not the case.
See Jozsa & Linden 2003: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201143
So to actually get a quantum speedup, these quantum computers will need to be connected with quantum channels, which are possible IRC with fiber optic links (eg. by using the quantum state of the photons). But that is not the case.
A distributed quantum computer is one that is entangled over a photonic link either by satellite or terrestrial connection.
You are correct to say that these are not in broad distribution today, but we are building for the future where we do have ubiquitous quantum repeaters and interconnects. We are working with manufacturers, universities, government labs, and NGOs to do early research in this space and centering these operations in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.
In the meantime, it is also important to build the infrastructure for distributed hybrid applications and incentives that enforce cooperation in the presence of adversarial nodes.
For a short review of papers that are relevant to this area of research, see below:
Experimental demonstration that qubits can be cloned at will, if encrypted with a single-use decryption key https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10695
Long-distance coherent quantum communications in deployed telecom networks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08801-w
Entanglement of nanophotonic quantum memory nodes in a telecom network https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07252-z
Continuous operation of a coherent 3,000-qubit system https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09596-6
Quantum Entanglement between Optical and Microwave Photonic Qubits https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.03...
You are correct to say that these are not in broad distribution today, but we are building for the future where we do have ubiquitous quantum repeaters and interconnects. We are working with manufacturers, universities, government labs, and NGOs to do early research in this space and centering these operations in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.
In the meantime, it is also important to build the infrastructure for distributed hybrid applications and incentives that enforce cooperation in the presence of adversarial nodes.
For a short review of papers that are relevant to this area of research, see below:
Experimental demonstration that qubits can be cloned at will, if encrypted with a single-use decryption key https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10695
Long-distance coherent quantum communications in deployed telecom networks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08801-w
Entanglement of nanophotonic quantum memory nodes in a telecom network https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07252-z
Continuous operation of a coherent 3,000-qubit system https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09596-6
Quantum Entanglement between Optical and Microwave Photonic Qubits https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.03...
Is this basically saying: assuming we have working Qbit computers, and we hook them up to a network, this is the system to do your work across the network?
This is saying, we have working qubit computers today, and you can request the time that hasn't already been reserved on them by using the network.
When combining the qubit computers with classical computers will get you a better result, the network will automatically handle that reformulation of the problem and handoff to the appropriate processors.
In the future, when we have better entanglement technology, it will also handle horizontal scaling across quantum processors.
When combining the qubit computers with classical computers will get you a better result, the network will automatically handle that reformulation of the problem and handoff to the appropriate processors.
In the future, when we have better entanglement technology, it will also handle horizontal scaling across quantum processors.
The basic problem: quantum hardware is here and already competitive on certain optimization problems, but for most people, there's no way to access it. The machines cost millions and the hardware and research are gated by the companies who own them.
Also, quantum providers regularly have machines sitting idle because demand isn't consistent, and that's a problem because many architectures need to be cooled near absolute zero and can't just be turned off. There's currently no equivalent of spinning up an on-demand cloud instance for quantum compute.
So we're building one. Quip.Network is a spot clearinghouse and marketplace where quantum providers contribute excess capacity, developers deploy their best solvers to an open library, and anyone can submit a workload and get a result without needing to own or understand the hardware. Classical operators (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs) can also participate in solving and verifying.
The first quantum subnet was built in close collaboration with D-Wave, the world's leading quantum computing company. It focuses on optimization problems, the kind that appear across finance, logistics, and manufacturing. It runs on annealing QPUs and has demonstrated competitive performance on solution quality, speed, and energy cost relative to classical computing approaches. The mining protocol is designed around these benchmarks, so participants compete to find better solutions.
We had about 13,000 signups before launch. The codebase is fully open source because we think quantum advantage should be a verifiable result, not a marketing claim. We want people running nodes, challenging our implementations, and submitting proofs of work optimized for their own hardware.
Unlike GPU clusters where one more processor is a linear improvement, the value of adding just one more QPU to your cluster is exponential. It won't be enough to be just AWS, GCP, or IBM. To solve the toughest problems, we'll want to connect together every processor on Earth and have them operate as one giant quantum system. That's why we think a distributed system is the right approach, and that's why our mission is to build the worldwide quantum computer.
Happy to answer anything!
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