{{short description|Quantum computing company}} {{Notability|Companies|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox company | name = QC Ware | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = | trade_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = <!-- Use ISO 639-1 code, e.g. "fr" for French. For multiple names in different languages, use {{Lang|[code]|[name]}}. --> | romanized_name = | former_name = | type = | traded_as = | ISIN = | industry = Quantum Computing | genre = | fate = | predecessor = <!-- or: | predecessors = --> | successor = <!-- or: | successors = --> | founded = {{Start date and age|2014}} in Palo Alto, California, U.S. | founder = <!-- or: | founders = --> | defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | hq_location = | hq_location_city = Palo Alto | hq_location_country = United States | num_locations = | num_locations_year = <!-- Year of num_locations data (if known) --> | area_served = <!-- or: | areas_served = --> | key_people = | products = | brands = | production = | production_year = <!-- Year of production data (if known) --> | services = | revenue = | revenue_year = <!-- Year of revenue data (if known) --> | operating_income = | income_year = <!-- Year of operating_income data (if known) --> | net_income = <!-- or: | profit = --> | net_income_year = <!-- or: | profit_year = --><!-- Year of net_income/profit data (if known) --> | aum = <!-- Only for financial-service companies --> | assets = | assets_year = <!-- Year of assets data (if known) --> | equity = | equity_year = <!-- Year of equity data (if known) --> | owner = <!-- or: | owners = --> | members = | members_year = <!-- Year of members data (if known) --> | num_employees = | num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) --> | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | module = <!-- Used to embed other templates --> | ratio = <!-- Basel III ratio; used for banks only --> | rating = <!-- Credit rating; used for banks only --> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | footnotes = }}
'''QC Ware''' is a quantum-computing-as-a-service company based in Palo Alto, California.
== History== QC Ware was founded in 2014 by Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll after Johnson met a group of researchers at NASA Ames interested in quantum computing.<ref name="knappforbes">{{cite web |last1=Knapp |first1=Alex |title=QC Ware Joins The Growing Ranks Of Companies Offering Quantum Cloud Computing Services |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2019/09/27/qc-ware-joins-the-growing-ranks-of-companies-offering-quantum-computing-cloud-services/#4e5f894f7e57 |website=Forbes |access-date=29 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=QC Ware — Quantum Computing Companies |url=https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qc-ware-quantum-computing-companies/ |website=Quantum Zeitgeist |access-date=31 October 2019 |date=16 August 2019 |last1=Explained |first1=Quantumcomputing |archive-date=31 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031211306/https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qc-ware-quantum-computing-companies/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2018, QC Ware was one of the first testers of Google's Cirq framework, publicly demonstrating an implementation of the QAOA algorithm on a simulator.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms |url=https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/announcing-cirq-open-source-framework.html |website=Google AI Blog |access-date=29 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
==Services== In 2019, QC Ware launched Forge, a cloud platform that aims to allow developers to run algorithms on hardware provided by multiple vendors. As of the launch, the platform offered access to a D-Wave quantum computer, but only simulations of Google and IBM machines.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Frederic |first1=Lardinois |title=QC Ware Forge will give developers access to quantum hardware and simulators across vendors |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/qc-ware-forge-will-give-developers-access-to-quantum-hardware-and-simulators-across-vendors/ |website=TechCrunch |date=25 September 2019 |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>
==Q2B conference== QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference. The first Q2B was hosted in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=QC Ware Announces Q2B 2019: Practical Quantum Computing Conference December 10 - 12 (Press release) |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qc-ware-announces-q2b-2019-140000805.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029225632/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qc-ware-announces-q2b-2019-140000805.html |archive-date=2019-10-29 |website=finance.yahoo.com |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>
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