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SC26 – Chicago, IL. hpc unites.

MEET Q.ANT
AT SC26

See photonic computing running.

Dates
15–20 November 2026
Venue
McCormick Place, Chicago, USA
Find us on our partners’ booths
HLRS #4106 · LRZ #4254 · JSC #2254
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Live at SC26

Put lightto work

Q.ANT Native Processing Unit, the photonic PCIe card

to make AI faster, more energy-efficient and cheaper.

The challenge

CMOS knows only two moves: addition and multiplication. Light knows more. Our processors compute the complex, non-linear math of AI natively in light. That gives developers a new tool for algorithmic innovation: leaner models that need less data and fewer parameters.

Live at SC26

At SC26, see our photonic processor running AI models live. Book a 30-minute meeting with our team to explore how photonic computing can benefit your use case.

Already running at

  • Forschungszentrum Jülich
  • IONOS
  • Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
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Technology

Start building with Photonic Computing today.

Q.ANT pioneers photonic computing to make AI faster, more energy-efficient and cheaper. The Q.ANT Native Processing Server (NPS) is the first commercial photonic processor seamlessly integrating into existing infrastructure. Start building today: Our open-source SDK is on GitHub with runnable examples and C/C++ and Python APIs. We go beyond the chip: hardware, open software access and a path to hands-on use come together as one compute path.

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Where it fits

  1. 01Generative AI
  2. 02Image processing
  3. 03Forecasting & time series prediction
  4. 04Physics & scientific simulations

Find us  ·  Exhibit hall

Visit us at our
partners’ booths.

Book a meeting
  • Booth#4106

  • Booth#4254

  • Booth#2254

Exhibit hall hours

Tue–Wed, 17–18 Nov10 AM–6 PM

Thu, 19 Nov10 AM–3 PM

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Photonica
guides your way at SC26

Meet Photonica, Q.ANT’s super hero. She represents light itself, the foundation of everything we build.
She will be your guide to find Q.ANT at SC 26.

Where to find the booths

SC26 Session · Birds of a Feather

Join a Birds of a Feather session.

With Dr. Victor Brasch, Head of Architecture at Q.ANT, and session leaders from HLRS, PNNL, Sandia National Laboratories, Stanford University, TU Dresden and Lightsolver.

Session

Analog Computing for Science: From Emerging Technologies to a Shared Research Agenda

Date
Wed, 18 Nov 2026
Time
5:15–6:45 PM CST
Room
W178ab

Analog computing is re-emerging as a broad approach to scientific computation. Join researchers from national labs, universities and industry to discuss promising workloads, shared infrastructure and research priorities for analog and hybrid analog-digital computing. The session will be livestreamed and recorded.

Session details

About the conference

Meet the global
HPC community.

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  • 15–20 Nov 2026
  • McCormick Place
  • Chicago, USA

SC26 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, where researchers, engineers and infrastructure leaders meet to see what’s next in computing.

Event website
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15–20 November · Chicago

SEE IT RUN.
BOOK 30 MINUTES
WITH OUR TEAM.

Watch our photonic processor running AI models live and explore how photonic computing can benefit your use case.