- Paving the Way for Solving Combinational Optimization Problems in Mobility, Finance, Drug Discovery, and a Variety of Other Industrial Fields -

Main Points of Announcement
・In a wide range of industrial fields including advanced mobility services, smart factories, finance and drug discovery, which are the core of Society 50, there are various underlying combinational optimization problems
・However, before we use パラダイスカジノ including quantum annealing machines that would provide solutions to the problems, there are many underlying difficulties
・Therefore, in our research and development, we will develop a common software パラダイスカジノ as an intermediate layer between Ising machine hardware and real problems

On September 5, 2018, a group of six co-proposer organizations represented by Waseda University (Chief of R&D: Prof Nozomu Togawa) and including Tokyo Institute of Technology, National Institute of Informatics, Research Organization of Information and Systems("NII"), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ("AIST"), カジノオンライン, and Fixstars Corporation, adopted "Development of Next-generation Computing Technologies," one of the research and development items in " Project for Innovative AI Chips and Next-generation Computing Technology Development," a project conducted by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization ("NEDO") The name of the adopted project is "Research and Development of a Common Software Platform for Ising Machines" ("this R&D") The period of the project is from the 2018 fiscal year through the 2022 fiscal year In addition, NEC Corporation will join in the project as a partner to conduct the project together with Waseda University

パラダイスカジノ including quantum annealing machines are expected to provide a breakthrough for fast solutions to combinational optimization problems In Japan, research and development of パラダイスカジノ, including quantum annealing machines and semiconductor-based パラダイスカジノ, has also been actively conducted, and various types of Ising machine hardware have been proposed and developed

On the other hand, in various industrial fields including advanced mobility services, smart factories, finance and drug discovery, which are core fields of Society 50, there are various underlying combinational optimization problems, and there is a great gap between such real problems and Ising machine hardware aimed at resolving them A key to making the quantum annealing machine a success is determining how to fill in the gap and make the quantum annealing machine easy to use

To resolve the problems described above, in this R&D, we will conduct the research and development of a common software パラダイスカジノ, including a group of middleware programs and common APIs as an intermediate layer between real issues and various Ising machine hardware As a result, it is expected to make it possible to resolve various real problems, which have so far been difficult to apply the technology to, by using the common software パラダイスカジノ on Ising machines

Six organizations are aiming to jointly develop the common software パラダイスカジノ for various Ising machines In particular, the organizations will advance the development in close cooperation with "Project for AI Chips and Next-generation Computing Technology Development / Development of Next-generation Computing Technologies / Research and Development of Quantum Annealing Technologies Using Superconductive Parametron Devices" (Representative: NEC Corporation), which are NEDO's commissioned projects for developing new quantum annealing machine architectures

To realize Society 50, social demands for high-performance computing as well as the progress of digitalization in various industrial fields, including advanced mobility services, smart factories, finance and drug discovery, have been growing rapidly There are underlying “optimization problems,” especially “combinational optimization problems,” in industrial fields where Society 50 will be implemented Therefore, it is said that obtaining fast optimum solutions to combinational optimization problems at high speed, even if they are difficult problems, will determine whether Society 50 succeeds or fails

In this R&D, パラダイスカジノ, including quantum annealing machines, are expected to provide a breakthrough for fast solutions to combinational optimization problems From sample data, it is said that combinational optimization problems would be solvable at high speed using the Ising machine In addition, base technologies supporting the quantum annealing machine, for example, superconducting quantum bits and fast solutions to combinational optimization problems using the Ising model, are technologies that were proposed and demonstrated in Japan in 1990s

Against this background, at present research and development of Ising machines, including quantum annealing machines and semiconductor-based Ising machines, is also actively in progress in Japan, and various types of Ising machine hardware have been proposed and developed However, there is a great gap between real problems and Ising machine hardware that would provide solutions to such real problems Therefore, how to fill in this “gap,” more specifically, how to build a “software パラダイスカジノ” which is a common パラダイスカジノ operating on various Ising machine architectures, as an intermediate layer between real problems and Ising machines, has become a key issue

To resolve these problems, in this R&D we will research and develop a common software パラダイスカジノ including a group of middleware programs and common APIs as an intermediate layer between real problems and Ising machine hardware As a result, it will be possible to provide a common software パラダイスカジノ that will operate not only on the Ising machines that have been developed so far in Japan and overseas, but also on various Ising machines to be developed in the future It will also be possible to fill in the gap between real problems and Ising machine hardware, and to provide solutions to complicated and diverse real problems, on various Ising machines

1) Waseda University
・Development of basic algorithms and elemental technologies for a common software パラダイスカジノ for Ising machines

2) Tokyo Institute of Technology
・Development of basic quantum annealing theories for a common software パラダイスカジノ for Ising machines

3) National Institute of Informatics, Research Organization of Information and Systems
・Development of classical algorithms for the evaluation of a common software パラダイスカジノ for Ising machines

4) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
・Development of security and material design applications

5) カジノオンライン
・Study of the extraction and formulation of problems for the evaluation of a common software パラダイスカジノ for Ising machines
・Development of next-generation mobility, logistics and supply chain applications

6) Fixstars Corporation
・Development of libraries and APIs for the evaluation of a common software パラダイスカジノ for Ising machines

7) NEC Corporation
・Optimum design of hardware architectures for quantum annealing machines that will work with パラダイスカジノ

・WASEDA University (Headquarters: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, President：Aiji Tanaka)
・Tokyo Institute of Technology (Headquarters: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, President：Kazuya Masu)
・National Institute of Informatics, Research Organization of Information and Systems (Headquarters: Chiyoda Tokyo, Japan, Director General：Masaru Kitsuregawa)
・National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Headquarters Chiyoda Tokyo, Japan, President：Ryoji Chubachi)
・カジノオンライン(Head Office: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, President & CEO: Ichiro Kashitani )
・Fixstars Corporation (Head Office: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, CEO: Satoshi Miki)