An early and successful foundation in quantum computing is necessary to achieve leadership in this emerging field and hence, The MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab is established with the support of AWS. It is the first of its kind initiative in the World, that aims to enable India’s talented researchers to explore the unchartered applications of quantum computing, and pave the way for new discoveries and disruptions
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Additional Secretary, MeitY
The core mission of MeitY is to identify and deploy technologies promoting innovation and discovery to help India advance and achieve a more sustainable future. Quantum computing has the extraordinary potential to help countries leapfrog technology generations, achieve scientific leadership and deliver answers to complex economic and social challenges. The MeitY initiative will augment India’s ongoing efforts in developing Quantum Computing Applications.
Abhishek Singh President & CEO, National e-Governance Division (NeGD), MeitY.
We congratulate MeitY for its visionary leadership empowering the scientific community in India. By supporting the MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab, we aim to make quantum computing available to more scientists, researchers, developers, and organizations, enabling them to access and experiment with the technology, and explore the practical applications of quantum algorithms
Max Peterson Vice President, International Sales, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Limited access to quantum computing hardware and expertise, and complex infrastructure setup and management, are challenges that scientists and researchers face today, in their quest for scientific discovery and hence, our collaboration with MeitY to establish the Quantum Computing Applications Lab will provide the breadth and depth of AWS services to the researching, academic, and scientific community to overcome these challenges and focus on innovation
Rahul Sharma Public Sector – AISPL, AWS India and South Asia.
As MeitY continues to be the leading force behind the Government of India’s efforts to promote inclusive and sustainable growth of the Electronics, and IT industry, an emphasis on R&D innovation, and ensuring secure cyberspace will be of utmost relevance. Through the creation of the Quantum Computing Applications Lab (QCAL) in collaboration with AWS, MeitY has taken an important step to identify quantum computing problem statements faced by ministries, other government agencies, research institutions, and academia. Democratizing quantum computing by facilitating no-cost access to necessary hardware and software will aid our researchers and developers in their endeavour of research and discovery. My sincerest wishes to MeitY on this very fruitful collaboration with AWS.
Dr. Ajay Sood Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt. of India
lt stands to disrupt current computing techniques as we know it and will enable industries to tackle problems they never would have attempted to solve before. Quantum computing has the potential to solve computational problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers by harnessing the laws of quantum mechanics to process information in new ways. This approach to computing could transform areas such as chemical engineering, material science, drug discovery, financial portfolio optimization, and machine learning.
The initiative focuses on the application development side of Quantum Computing - develop quantum algorithms by offering the research community a platform for experimentation and learning.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in India established the Quantum Computing Applications Lab, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate quantum computing-led research and development and enable new scientific discoveries. This is MeitY’s first initiative in the country to provide scientific, academic, and developer communities with access to a quantum computing development environment in the cloud. This is also the first quantum computing applications lab on AWS Cloud to support a government’s science and technology mission at a country level.
The MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab identifies quantum computing problem statements for experimentation from central and state government ministries, government agencies, research institutions, and academia.
This Quantum Computing Applications Lab enables the scientific, research and developer community with access to quantum computing on cloud and provides access to a fully managed quantum computing service on the AWS cloud that helps researchers and developers get started with the technology to accelerate research and discovery. The Lab provides selected applicants with no-cost access to quantum computing hardware, simulators, and programming tools on-demand, including access to the broad range of AWS Cloud services, enabling them to build algorithms, conduct advanced simulations, and run experiments.
The MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab helps government departments and agencies identify problems and opportunities rapidly, and test real-world challenges through experiments and prototypes in a low risk environment. Outcomes from these experiments helps in evolving the problem statements, proof-of-concepts and prototypes that leads to the development of applications, models, and frameworks in quantum computing. It works with subject matter experts from the government sector to define the problem statements, and make them public, inviting applications from researchers, academia, and organizations to address them.
The Lab puts quantum computing in the hands of every developer and scientist to build algorithms, conduct advanced simulations, and run experiments.
Managed development environments
High-performing circuit
simulators
Hybrid workloads on secure, on-demand quantum hardware
Democratize Quantum Computing
Access to state-of-art technologies
Low Cost, On Demand, Scalable and Accessible to all
Provide Expert Guidance
Cross-discipline support
State-of-the-art algorithms
Domain and technical expertise
Push the Boundaries
Research quantum algorithms and hardware
Build for the world
This helps us to prepare and be future-ready and lead the next wave of computing technology.
19th Jan 2021
Joint Governance Council formed between MeitY and AWS
Joint Governance Council evaluates the proposals based on alignment to national priorities
Approves AWS credits and defines goals for success
Developers/scientists build experiments and prototypes on Amazon Braket
AWS provides technical support on Amazon Braket
Results of proposals are shared with the Joint Governance Council for evaluation
Successful proposals are selected for further enhancements and encouraged for production
