Nvidia and Quantum Machines, the Israeli startup that provides an orchestration platform for controlling and operating quantum processors, today announced the launch of Nvidia DGX Quantum, which combines Nvidia’s Grace Hopper Superchip with the Quantum Machines controller.
Over the past few years it has become increasingly clear that for a quantum computer to work effectively, you also need a lot of classical computational resources to control these systems. And these two systems also need to be tightly integrated, partly because you need to run calibration and error correction algorithms on the classical machines to keep the quantum machines running. But each additional computational cycle then also helps to perform additional functions and evaluate the data from the quantum computer.
“Quantum computers have a very natural place — and that is to power supercomputers,” said Quantum Machines co-founder and CEO Itamar Sivan. “The most natural place for them, I think, is in supercomputing infrastructure and cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, these will be the first places to integrate quantum computing on a larger scale. We want to power these supercomputers with quantum, but we also want to power the quantum with the supercomputers.”
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That’s what this collaboration is all about. You can’t run a quantum computer without massive classical computing resources and for a supercomputer, quantum essentially becomes another co-processor for handling specific tasks, similar to how GPUs are often used to speed up machine learning tasks, for example.
“If you have a million cubits or hundreds of thousands of cubits and each has a dozen parameters that need to be optimized independently – the community leaders turn their attention to AI methods, which shine on an NVIDIA platform,” explains Tim Costa. , Nvidia’s director of high performance computing and quantum. “There is a huge GPU computational need to make a computer stand up that will deliver on the promise of quantum. And to do that, of course, we have to be closely connected with quantum, so we have to work with the leader in the field in interacting with quantum and controlling quantum, which is Quantum Machine.