HPC

Nvidia Brings Together Quantum And AI For HPC Centers

Nvidia has spent much of the year launching new products and partnerships that aim to ensure it keeps its place atop the wild west that is still the AI market while establishing its place in the emerging quantum computing space, where co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang sees Nvidia being a key infrastructure provider and accelerator.

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IBM Lets Fly “Nighthawk” And “Loon” QPUs On The Way To Quantum Advantage

Quantum computing is finally heating up. There is a heady mix of high-profile and highly resourced big tech players like Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Nvidia either building QPUs, simulating  them, or integrating them with classical supercomputers in addition to well-funded younger companies and startups, such as QuEra, IonQ, Quantum Computing, Quantinuum, D-Wave, and Alice & Bob.

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IBM Outlines Steps To Verify Claims Of Quantum Advantage

D-Wave executives stirred up some controversy earlier this year when they claimed a smaller version of its Advantage 2 annealing quantum system, armed with 1,200 qubits, had reached “quantum supremacy,” – or “quantum advantage” – that significant but ill-defined time when a quantum system is able to solve a problem in much less time, at a lower cost, or more efficiently than the most powerful classical supercomputer.

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D-Wave Pushes Back At Critics, Shows Off Aggressive Quantum Roadmap

In a panel discussion during GPU Technical Conference a few weeks ago, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang suggested to executives of several quantum computing companies that are calling their systems “computers” may be a misnomer and that a better tag might be “instruments.”