IIT Roorkee, IISc Bangalore, C-DAC Develops India’s First Quantum Computer Simulator Toolkit

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched the country’s first 'Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) Toolkit', brought together by IISc Bangalore, IIT Roorkee and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched the country’s first 'Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) Toolkit', brought together by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). “Quantum Computing is a rapidly emerging computational paradigm which can perform a variety of tasks with greater speed and efficiency than present day digital computers...in areas such as cryptography, computational chemistry and machine learning, quantum computing promises exponential growth in computing power. QSim is a first-of-its-kind toolkit to be indigenously developed and is intended to be a vital tool in learning and understanding the practical aspects of programming....” IIT Roorkee said. QSim aims to “address the common challenge of advancing the quantum computing research frontiers in India. It will enable researchers and students to research Quantum Computing in a cost-effective manner,” it added. The project was funded by MeitY and developed through a multi-institutional approach by the three institutes.