D-Wave Quantum Inc. announced that it has extended its agreement with Aramco to manage geophysical optimization problems through quantum technologies. With support from D-Wave, the team has been able to create its first subsurface maps, using tens of gigabytes of seismic data as input, with the aim of processing a terabyte of seismic data with the D-Wave quantum computer in 2024. Using D-Wave?s quantum computers and hybrid solvers, accessible through the Leap?

quantum cloud service, Aramco?s team of researchers developed their own hybrid classical-quantum geophysical applications. Using D-Wave?s quantum technologies, the Center has seen performance gains over classical computers in both time-to-solution and scale.