QBT has made available to its team members the most advanced IT facilities, located in a data center in Northern Italy, which include CPUs with more than 256 cores, GPUs in excess of 70,000 cores, several Terabytes of RAM and 2 Petabytes of storage for the very large big data being analysed. Moreover, cloud access to IBM QISKIT quantum computer simulator and other cloud computing facilities, make the development environment a state-of-the-art IT development platform for QBT’s R&D Team.
The heart of the classic computing facility is the machine learning engine with more than 70,000 GPU cores available, more than 200 CPU cores and a very big data of more than 2 Petabyte of memory, with several tens of l CPU cores which supports the Bitcoin mining network infrastructure, for solo mining and proprietary pool mining.
Two state-of-the-art FPGA chips are currently being used, which play different roles in the Bitcoin mining optimisation process.
The IBM QISKIT quantum computing facility, available on the Cloud, and on our IT platform, allows for the simulation of several quits, for the initial testing of the proprietary quantum algorithm.
Additional cloud quantum simulators are also being used by the Company, as part of the initial assessment of different algorithms.
Moreover, QBT has selected software systems, in particular, neural network models, either commercial, public domain, or proprietary, as key research elements, which are combined with data pre-processing and post processing tools. A number of advanced compilers are being used, including some for the optimal allocation of tasks on multi-core systems, together with a VHDL platform for FPGA programming environments and solo, or pool mining nodes, in the software environment.