The quantum data centre of the future

数据中心及其周围的网络和系统是数字化经济未来的主力。它们提供的数据处理是众所周知的经济增长动力，提供尖端的存储和计算系统，越来越多地支持商业和社会的方方面面。这些数据中心是一个庞大的系统系统，由来自多样化的全球供应链的数千个组件组成。为了应对日益增长的需要处理的数据量和复杂性，这些系统正变得越来越复杂，并已开始在不同的体系结构中整合新的芯片集，以提供更有效的机器学习问题训练。长期以来，量子技术一直被描述为解决世界上最具挑战性的数据问题的方案。量子计算能够显著增强我们处理优化、机器学习和分类问题的能力，这些问题是当今计算机无法处理的，而量子通信为日益增长的安全挑战提供了答案。然而，到目前为止，从系统的角度了解量子技术如何与现有数据中心整合的活动很少。量子计算机和通信系统经常被孤立地描述，或多或少与过去50年的行业方向不符。这错过了通过量子/经典混合系统创造非常显著的短期价值的可能性。这个项目有史以来第一次试图通过现有行业的镜头来看待量子技术。它汇集了经典数据中心和网络、量子计算和量子通信方面的专家，并将制定量子/经典混合数据中心和量子互联网的蓝图。

Data centres, and the networks and systems that surround them are the future work horse of digitised economies. The data processing that they provide is a well-known driver for economic growth, providing cutting edge storage and computing systems that increasingly underpin all aspects of business and society.These data centres are huge system of systems, comprising thousands of components coming from a diverse, global supply chain. To account for the ever growing amount and complexity of data that needs to be processed these systems are becoming more complex and have started to incorporate novel chip sets within heterogeneous architectures to provide more efficient training of machine learning problems.Quantum technologies, has long been described as the solution to the world's most challenging data problems. Quantum computing has the ability to significantly enhance our ability to process optimisation, machine learning and sorting problems which are beyond the reach of today's computers, and quantum communications provides the answer to ever-increasing challenges of security.However, to date, very little activity has taken place to understand from a systems perspective how quantum technologies can integrate with existing data centres. Quantum computers and communications systems are often described in isolation, more or less at-odds with the direction of the industry for the last 50 years.This misses the possibility for very significant near term value to be created with quantum/classical hybrid systems.For the first time ever, this project seeks look at quantum technologies through the lens of the existing industry. It brings together experts in classical data centres and networking, quantum computing and quantum communications and will develop a blueprint for a quantum/classical hybrid data centre and a quantum internet.