NVIDIA & Google Quantum AI Partner to Revolutionize Quantum Computing

NVIDIA has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with Google Quantum AI to accelerate the development of next-generation quantum computing devices. By leveraging NVIDIA's CUDA-Q™ platform and the Eos supercomputer, the partnership aims to simulate quantum device physics at an unprecedented scale, overcoming challenges that limit today’s quantum computing hardware.

Solving Quantum Noise with AI Supercomputing

Quantum computing hardware faces a significant hurdle: “noise.” Noise limits the number of quantum operations that can be performed before computations become unreliable.

• Google Quantum AI, with NVIDIA's support, is addressing this challenge by simulating the interactions between qubits and their environment to better understand noise. These highly complex simulations are critical for scaling quantum computing hardware while maintaining performance.

• Hybrid Quantum-Classical Platform: Google is using NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q platform to simulate quantum processors' physics, blending classical and quantum computing techniques.

• Massive Computing Power: With 1,024 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs on the NVIDIA Eos supercomputer, Google is conducting some of the largest and fastest simulations of quantum devices to date - at a fraction of the cost.

Breakthrough in Quantum Simulations

The collaboration has already achieved significant milestones:

• 40-Qubit Simulations: NVIDIA and Google have conducted the largest-ever simulations of devices containing 40 qubits, delivering comprehensive and realistic insights.

• Speed and Cost Efficiency: Simulations that once took a week can now be performed in minutes using NVIDIA's accelerated computing power, dramatically reducing the time and cost of quantum processor design.

• Public Software Access: The CUDA-Q platform, which powers these advancements, will be publicly available, enabling quantum hardware engineers worldwide to scale their designs more efficiently.

Key Quotes

Guifre Vidal, Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI:

“The development of commercially useful quantum computers is only possible if we can scale up quantum hardware while keeping noise in check. Using NVIDIA accelerated computing, we’re exploring the noise implications of increasingly larger quantum chip designs.”

Tim Costa, Director of Quantum and HPC at NVIDIA:

“Google’s use of the CUDA-Q platform demonstrates the central role GPU-accelerated simulations have in advancing quantum computing to help solve real-world problems.”

Looking Ahead

This partnership between NVIDIA and Google Quantum AI highlights the growing role of AI supercomputing in advancing quantum computing. By enabling fast, realistic simulations of large-scale quantum devices, NVIDIA's CUDA-Q platform is paving the way for scalable, noise-resistant quantum hardware.

The broader availability of CUDA-Q will empower quantum hardware engineers globally to innovate and refine designs, pushing the boundaries of what quantum computing can achieve. With these advancements, the long-term goal of solving real-world problems with quantum technology appears closer than ever.

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