IQM Launches HPC Integration Service — Built on MQSC’s QDMI
IQM Quantum Computers has launched its new HPC Integration Service, enabling quantum systems to run as scheduled compute nodes alongside CPUs and GPUs — built on QDMI, the open quantum interface standard implemented by MQSC.
IQM Quantum Computers — one of the world’s leading quantum hardware manufacturers — has launched its HPC Integration Service, a production-ready solution that integrates IQM Radiance quantum computers directly into HPC environments via the Slurm workload manager. The service is already running in production at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), where IQM operates four quantum systems among the world’s top supercomputing facilities.
At the heart of this integration is QDMI — the Quantum Device Management Interface — an open-source standard that MQSC actively develops and maintains. QDMI provides a unified, open-source software layer that replaces the fragmented, vendor-specific interfaces that have historically slowed quantum-HPC integration. With QDMI, quantum hardware becomes a first-class compute resource: schedulable, reusable, and operable within existing HPC workflows.
Seeing a major industry player like IQM adopt QDMI as the foundation for their integration service is a strong validation that standardized quantum interfaces are not just a research idea — they work in production today.
The full technical details are documented in a joint preprint on arXiv, co-authored by researchers from IQM and MQSC. The implementation is publicly available on GitHub.