Hybrid architecture will help develop applications in artificial intelligence, chemistry, energy, biology and simulation.
Supercomputing centers in Germany, Japan and Poland plan to integrate Nvidia’s open-source platform to integrate and program quantum and classical processors as a single system. The centers already have high-performance computing systems using Nvidia CPUs and GPUs. The CUDA-Q platform would allow them to work in a hybrid environment with quantum processing units (QPUs).
The Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany is integrating a QPU from IQM Quantum Computers with its Jupiter supercomputer. Jupiter uses the Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper superchip, which combines GPU and CPU capabilities.
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JSC researchers plan to use the QPU to develop quantum applications for chemical simulations and optimization problems and demonstrate how classical supercomputers can be accelerated
by quantum computers.
The ABCI-Q supercomputer at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan also uses the Hopper architecture and incorporates a QuEra QPU. It aims to enable researchers to study quantum applications in artificial intelligence, energy, and biology.
“Japanese researchers will advance toward practical applications of quantum computing with the accelerated quantum-classical supercomputer ABCI-Q. “Nvidia is helping these pioneers push the boundaries of quantum computing research,” said G-QuAT/AIST Deputy Director Masahiro Horibe.
The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland recently connected two Orca Computing photonic QPUs to a new Hopper-accelerated supercomputer partition. “This collaboration heralds a new era of computational innovation in quantum computing. Orca’s collaboration with like-minded partners in quantum computing will enable unprecedented capabilities to solve complex real-world problems across disciplines, now and in the future,” said Orca Computing co-founder and CEO Richard Murray. The director of Nvidia de Quantum and HPC Tim Costa said that the close integration of Quantum with the GPU supercomputing will allow a “useful” quantum calculation.
“The NVIDIA quantum calculation platform equips pioneers such as Aist, JSC and PSNC to overcome the limits of scientific discovery and advance the state of the technique in the integrated supercomputing of quantum,” added Costa.
