Equal1 has announced the launch of RacQ, a deployable rack-mounted silicon-spin quantum computer designed to live within a standard 19-inch data center rack. RacQ, said the company, is next generation evolution of the company’s Bell-1 Server, is designed to integrate seamlessly with any classical compute hardware, enabling hybrid quantum classical compute all within the same data center rack form factor.
RacQ is meant to enable Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing (HQCC) Integration, which will be able to perform high-impact applications, including investment risk analysis, materials simulation and supply chain optimization. In these workflows, classical and quantum workloads operate as a single system, with intensive subroutines being offloaded to the RacQ quantum processor, while pre- and post-processing remain on the classical compute server.
The company will demonstrate this at Dell Technologies World, where it will display the experimental prototype in which RacQ integrates a silicon quantum computer with a Dell PowerEdge R770 server, a PowerSwitch networking environment and Dell’s Quantum Intelligent Orchestrator within a standard data center rack design.
“For nearly every organization, quantum computing remains out of reach, confined to labs,” says Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1. “We’re changing that. We are putting quantum inside the rack so customers can roll it in, plug it in and begin running hybrid quantum–classical workloads in days, using the infrastructure they already own.”
