Nvidia Launches Toolset to Accelerate Quantum AdoptionNvidia Launches Toolset to Accelerate Quantum Adoption

New software allows simulations for early-adopter businesses

Berenice Baker, Editor, Enter Quantum, co-editor AI Business

March 31, 2022

2 Min Read

One of the current challenges with quantum computing is the ability to be used at scale.

Quantum computers also are prone to errors that require resource-hungry correction procedures. 

As a result, businesses preparing to adopt quantum computing develop applications using simulation on reliable, classical high-performance computers (HPC) so they will be ready to run on quantum computers. However, simulations are limited in the size of quantum circuits they can simulate. 

In an attempt to alleviate this problem, Nvidia has just launched a suite of software development tools called cuQuantum to enable classical HPCs to simulate larger-scale quantum circuits than is currently possible. 

This means businesses can prepare software now that will be ready to run on quantum computers later. 

Canada-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies has integrated cuQuantum into PennyLane, its open-source framework for quantum machine learning and quantum chemistry.

Oak Ridge National Lab is using it in a framework for tensor network quantum circuit simulations, which are mathematical representations of quantum states. 

Quantum computers work best for specific types of calculations, so many future applications are likely to use a hybrid of quantum and classical computers to solve problems. Nvidia is also developing a programming language that lets quantum and classical computers talk to each other.

Known as nvq++, it works using Quantum Intermediate Representation (QIR), a type of low-level machine language that quantum and classical computers can use to talk to each other, making the most of hybrid applications.

Researchers have established the QIR Alliance to focus on the interface between quantum and classical computing to get the best from both of them. Led by the Linux Foundation, members include Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Quantinuum and Quantum Circuits. Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are expected to be among the first to use this new software.

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About the Author

Berenice Baker

Editor, Enter Quantum, co-editor AI Business, Informa TechTarget

Berenice is the editor of Enter Quantum and co-editor of AI Business. She has over 20 years of experience as a technology journalist, having previously worked at The Engineer and Global Defence Technology.

Before that, she worked as an IT consultant, fuelling her passion for technology and innovation. She graduated with one of the country's first-ever IT degrees so long ago it coincided with Tim Berners-Lee inventing the World Wide Web.

Berenice lives in north London with her cat Huxley. In her spare time, she enjoys going to music gigs, museums and galleries, dabbling in art and playing guitar (badly).

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