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IBM today announced it is installing a quantum computer at the Cleveland Clinic, marking the first time the company has physically placed this next-generation system on the premises of a private sector client.

The move marks yet another step forward for quantum computing. It comes as part of a broader 10-year partnership between IBM and the clinic that includes hybrid cloud service and AI.

According to IBM Quantum Network director Dr. Anthony J. Annunziata, including a quantum computer as part of that suite of tools is critical because the company wants to understand which tasks are best suited to quantum computations. Despite rapid advances, quantum computers are still in their infancy, but its still possible they could be more efficient at limited tasks.

The Cleveland Clinic will have the full capacity of a quantum system we purpose-built for them, Annunziata said. Well have a much better ability to integrate it into their existing infrastructure. There will be benefits in doing that as we figure out how quantum can address these really tough problems and also how it can accelerate the application of AI.

The partners have dubbed the program the Discovery Accelerator, and its overall goal is to power new breakthroughs in health care and life sciences. IBMs computing tools are being leveraged to better harness the clinics wealth of data, including genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, population health, clinical applications, and chemical and drug discovery, according to a press release.

The eye-catching part of the announcement, however, is the move to physically place a quantum computer at the clinic. Until now, the company has been focused on its IBM Q Network, a consortium of research and business partners who can experiment with quantum computing via a cloud-based service. IBM has grown increasingly optimistic about quantums potential and has laid out an ambitious timetable for expanding commercial applications.

That will now include its first on-premises Quantum System One in the United States outside of an IBM computation center. IBM currently has a quantum computer on its own campus, as well as one at Germanys Fraunhofer Institute and the University of Tokyo. The Cleveland Clinic is the first private sector client and the first in the U.S.

Annunziata said the clinic will make for a good first private partner, thanks to its recently announced Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health. The new center will assemble teams to focus on viral pathogens, virus-induced cancers, genomics, immunology, and immunotherapies.

If there is anything that we can do as a technology partner to help institutions with the mission to advance life sciences and health care, were very happy to do it, he said.

In many cases, researchers feel progress in these areas is being limited by the ability to gather and analyze massive datasets. The clinic is betting that a system that combines AI, quantum computing, and hybridcloud technologies will remove those hurdles and unleash new health care innovation.

Annunziata said part of the work will be to learn just where quantum computing sits in that computing system. Quantum is not robust enough to replace all computing functions. And even in many best-case scenarios, researchers believe quantum computing will be best suited for particular functions.

Health care has long been touted as a strong potential use case. Quantum proponents are betting that such computers will be able to develop more sophisticated models of the human body, allowing for the development of better hypotheses for designing experiments, as well as models that speed the testing of new drugs.

The key is learning which tasks in the Cleveland system can be offloaded to the quantum computer with the results then fed back into the classic computing architecture, Annunziata said.

At the same time, the Cleveland Clinic partnership will provide an opportunity to train a quantum workforce for the coming years as more commercial partners look for such skillsets.

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Video above: CDC director warns of 'impending doom' if U.S. eases COVID-19 restrictionsAfter a year in which scientists raced to understand COVID-19 and develop treatments and vaccines to stop its spread, Cleveland Clinic is partnering with IBM to use next-generation technologies to advance health care research and potentially prevent the next public health crisis.The two organizations on Tuesday announced the creation of the "Discovery Accelerator," which will apply technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence to pressing life sciences research questions. As part of the partnership, Cleveland Clinic will become the first private-sector institution to buy and operate an on-site IBM quantum computer, called the Q System One. Currently, such machines only exist in IBM labs and data centers.Quantum computing is expected to expedite the rate of discovery and help tackle problems with which existing computers struggle.The accelerator is part of Cleveland Clinic's new Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health, a facility introduced in January on the heels of a $500 million investment by the clinic, the state of Ohio and economic development nonprofit JobsOhio to spur innovation in the Cleveland area.The new center is dedicated to researching and developing treatments for viruses and other disease-causing organisms. That will include some research on COVID-19, including why it causes ongoing symptoms (also called "long Covid") for some who have been infected."Covid-19 is an example" of how the center and its new technologies will be used, said Dr. Lara Jehi, chief research information officer at the Cleveland Clinic."But ... what we want is to prevent the next COVID-19," Jehi told CNN Business. "Or if it happens, to be ready for it so that we don't have to, as a country, put everything on hold and put all of our resources into just treating this emergency. We want to be proactive and not reactive."The promise of quantumQuantum computers process information in a fundamentally different way from regular computers, so they will be able to solve problems that today's computers can't. They can, for example, test multiple solutions to a problem at once, making it possible to come up with an answer in a fraction of the time it would take a different machine.Applied to health care research, that capability is expected to be useful for modeling molecules and how they interact, which could accelerate the development of new pharmaceuticals. Quantum computers could also improve genetic sequencing to help with cancer research, and design more efficient, effective clinical trials for new drugs, Jehi said.Ultimately, Cleveland Clinic and IBM expect that applying quantum and other advanced technologies to health care research will speed up the rate of discovery and product development. Currently, the average time from scientific discovery in a lab to getting a drug to a patient is around 17 years, according to the National Institutes of Health."We really need to accelerate," Jehi said. "What we learned with the COVID-19 pandemic is that we cannot afford, as a human race, to just drop everything and focus on one emergency at a time."Part of the problem: It takes a long time to process and analyze the massive amount of data generated by health care, research and trials something that AI, quantum computing and high-performance computing (a more powerful version of traditional computing) can help with. Quantum computers do that by "simulating the world," said Dario Gil, director of IBM Research."Instead of conducting physical experiments, you're conducting them virtually, and because you're doing them virtually through computers, it's much faster," Gil said.What this means for IBMFor IBM, the partnership represents an important proof point for commercial applications of quantum computing. IBM currently offers access to quantum computers via the cloud to 134 institutions, including Goldman Sachs and Daimler, but building a dedicated machine on-site for one organization is a big step forward."What we're seeing is the emergency of quantum as a new industry within the world of information technology and computing," Gil said. "What we're seeing here in the context of Cleveland Clinic is ... a partner that says, 'I want the entire capacity of a full quantum computer to be to my research mission."The partnership also includes a training element that will help educate people on how to use quantum computing for research which is likely to further grow the ecosystem around the new technology.Cleveland Clinic and IBM declined to detail the cost of the quantum system being installed on the clinic's campus, but representatives from both organizations called it a "significant investment." Quantum computers are complex machines to build and maintain because they must be stored at extremely cold temperatures (think: 200 times colder than outer space).The Cleveland Clinic will start by using IBM's quantum computing cloud offering while waiting for its on-premises machine to be built, which is expected to take about a year. IBM plans to later install at the clinic a more advanced version of its quantum computer once it is developed in the coming years.Jehi, the Cleveland Clinic research lead, acknowledged that quantum computing technology is still nascent, but said the organization wanted to get in on the ground floor."It naturally needs nurturing and growing so that we can figure out what are its applications in health care," Jehi said. "It was important to us that we design those applications and we learn them ourselves, rather than waiting for others to develop them."

Video above: CDC director warns of 'impending doom' if U.S. eases COVID-19 restrictions

After a year in which scientists raced to understand COVID-19 and develop treatments and vaccines to stop its spread, Cleveland Clinic is partnering with IBM to use next-generation technologies to advance health care research and potentially prevent the next public health crisis.

The two organizations on Tuesday announced the creation of the "Discovery Accelerator," which will apply technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence to pressing life sciences research questions. As part of the partnership, Cleveland Clinic will become the first private-sector institution to buy and operate an on-site IBM quantum computer, called the Q System One. Currently, such machines only exist in IBM labs and data centers.

Quantum computing is expected to expedite the rate of discovery and help tackle problems with which existing computers struggle.

The accelerator is part of Cleveland Clinic's new Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health, a facility introduced in January on the heels of a $500 million investment by the clinic, the state of Ohio and economic development nonprofit JobsOhio to spur innovation in the Cleveland area.

The new center is dedicated to researching and developing treatments for viruses and other disease-causing organisms. That will include some research on COVID-19, including why it causes ongoing symptoms (also called "long Covid") for some who have been infected.

"Covid-19 is an example" of how the center and its new technologies will be used, said Dr. Lara Jehi, chief research information officer at the Cleveland Clinic.

"But ... what we want is to prevent the next COVID-19," Jehi told CNN Business. "Or if it happens, to be ready for it so that we don't have to, as a country, put everything on hold and put all of our resources into just treating this emergency. We want to be proactive and not reactive."

Quantum computers process information in a fundamentally different way from regular computers, so they will be able to solve problems that today's computers can't. They can, for example, test multiple solutions to a problem at once, making it possible to come up with an answer in a fraction of the time it would take a different machine.

Applied to health care research, that capability is expected to be useful for modeling molecules and how they interact, which could accelerate the development of new pharmaceuticals. Quantum computers could also improve genetic sequencing to help with cancer research, and design more efficient, effective clinical trials for new drugs, Jehi said.

Ultimately, Cleveland Clinic and IBM expect that applying quantum and other advanced technologies to health care research will speed up the rate of discovery and product development. Currently, the average time from scientific discovery in a lab to getting a drug to a patient is around 17 years, according to the National Institutes of Health.

"We really need to accelerate," Jehi said. "What we learned with the COVID-19 pandemic is that we cannot afford, as a human race, to just drop everything and focus on one emergency at a time."

Part of the problem: It takes a long time to process and analyze the massive amount of data generated by health care, research and trials something that AI, quantum computing and high-performance computing (a more powerful version of traditional computing) can help with. Quantum computers do that by "simulating the world," said Dario Gil, director of IBM Research.

"Instead of conducting physical experiments, you're conducting them virtually, and because you're doing them virtually through computers, it's much faster," Gil said.

For IBM, the partnership represents an important proof point for commercial applications of quantum computing. IBM currently offers access to quantum computers via the cloud to 134 institutions, including Goldman Sachs and Daimler, but building a dedicated machine on-site for one organization is a big step forward.

"What we're seeing is the emergency of quantum as a new industry within the world of information technology and computing," Gil said. "What we're seeing here in the context of Cleveland Clinic is ... a partner that says, 'I want the entire capacity of a full quantum computer to be [dedicated] to my research mission."

The partnership also includes a training element that will help educate people on how to use quantum computing for research which is likely to further grow the ecosystem around the new technology.

Cleveland Clinic and IBM declined to detail the cost of the quantum system being installed on the clinic's campus, but representatives from both organizations called it a "significant investment." Quantum computers are complex machines to build and maintain because they must be stored at extremely cold temperatures (think: 200 times colder than outer space).

The Cleveland Clinic will start by using IBM's quantum computing cloud offering while waiting for its on-premises machine to be built, which is expected to take about a year. IBM plans to later install at the clinic a more advanced version of its quantum computer once it is developed in the coming years.

Jehi, the Cleveland Clinic research lead, acknowledged that quantum computing technology is still nascent, but said the organization wanted to get in on the ground floor.

"It naturally needs nurturing and growing so that we can figure out what are its applications in health care," Jehi said. "It was important to us that we design those applications and we learn them ourselves, rather than waiting for others to develop them."

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