{"id":217710,"date":"2025-07-12T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-system-lets-multiple-users-share-a-single-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2025-07-12T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:04:43","slug":"new-system-lets-multiple-users-share-a-single-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-system-lets-multiple-users-share-a-single-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"New System Lets Multiple Users Share a Single Quantum Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-system-lets-multiple-users-share-a-single-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRESS RELEASE \u2014 Quantum computers have operated under a significant limitation: they can run only one program at a time. These million-dollar machines demand exclusive use even for the smallest tasks, leaving much of their expensive and fast-running hardware idle and forcing researchers to endure long queues.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia Engineering researchers have developed <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.usenix.org_system_files_osdi25-2Dtao.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=krVSeHlYdgsXLgQ_gwJ35PUFeYc3A-j8ssgcwtkPY0s&m=8Dm_ApTs6NMnSJd2sqxNj7LX9VG5vsONPyyoD97VA04n5h798R2sOIeJaGfFbZ2-&s=UyRo-SrUuoQAQ_1_wsgDOoarU2m2DM7wSjw9U1VPRFw\">HyperQ<\/a>, a novel system that enables multiple users to share a single quantum computer simultaneously through isolated quantum virtual machines (qVMs). This key development brings quantum computing closer to real-world usability\u2014more practical, efficient, and broadly accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHyperQ brings cloud-style virtualization to quantum computing,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.columbia.edu\/~nieh\/\">Jason Nieh<\/a>, professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.columbia.edu\/\">computer science<\/a> at Columbia Engineering and co-director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/systems.cs.columbia.edu\/\">Software Systems Laboratory<\/a>. \u201cIt lets a single machine run multiple programs at once\u2014no interference, no waiting in line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE \u2014 Quantum computers have operated under a significant limitation: they can run only one program at a time. These million-dollar machines demand exclusive use even for the smallest tasks, leaving much of their expensive and fast-running hardware idle and forcing researchers to endure long queues. Columbia Engineering researchers have developed HyperQ, a novel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}