Chicago-based quantum-networking startup memQ released memQ DQC, an open-source distributed quantum compiler and simulator, on September 24, 2026, in what the University of Chicago spin-out calls the quantum industry's first open-sourced framework for compiling programs across networks of heterogeneous QPUs.
Compiling across trapped-ion, superconducting and neutral-atom QPUs
memQ DQC takes a standard quantum circuit and turns it into a distributed program optimized for a specific network topology, then generates the execution schedule across trapped-ion, superconducting and neutral-atom processors from multiple vendors. The framework is squarely aimed at the scaling problem highlighted in US Executive Order 14413, which pushed federal agencies to test distributed quantum computing approaches ahead of monolithic scale-out.
A UChicago spin-out betting on interconnects
memQ's core technology is photonic quantum memory that acts as an interconnect between QPUs, and the compiler release is a bid to seed a wider software ecosystem around that hardware. Chief product officer Manish Kumar Singh said the release delivers "a practical, accessible way that distributed quantum computing approaches can be built, evaluated and executed." Related: IonQ to Install Superion 256 Quantum Computer at NVIDIA NVAQC and Infleqtion Hits 30 Entangled Logical Qubits On Sqale, A Fault-Tolerance Milestone.
Reporting based on coverage from GlobeNewswire, HPCwire and The Quantum Insider.