Nvidia has launched NVQLink – an open system architecture for tightly coupling the extreme performance of GPU computing with quantum processors to build accelerated quantum supercomputers.
Researchers from leading supercomputing centres at national laboratories including Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories guided the development of NVQLink, helping accelerate next-generation work on quantum computing.
NVQLink provides an open approach to quantum integration supporting 17 QPU builders, five controller builders, and nine US national labs.
Qubits – the units of information enabling quantum computers to process information in ways ordinary computers cannot – are delicate and error-prone, requiring complex calibration, quantum error correction, and other control algorithms to operate correctly.
These algorithms must run over an extremely demanding low-latency, high-throughput connection to a conventional supercomputer to keep on top of qubit errors and enable impactful quantum applications. NVQLink provides that interconnect enabling the environment needed for future, transformative applications across industries.
“In the near future, every Nvidia GPU scientific supercomputer will be hybrid, tightly coupled with quantum processors to expand what is possible with computing,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “NVQLink is the Rosetta Stone connecting quantum and classical supercomputers – uniting them into a single, coherent system that marks the onset of the quantum-GPU computing era.”
US national laboratories, led by the Department of Energy, will use NVQLink to make new breakthroughs in quantum computing.
“Maintaining America’s leadership in high-performance computing requires us to build the bridge to the next era of computing: accelerated quantum supercomputing,” says US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. “The deep collaboration between our national laboratories, startups and industry partners like Nvidia is central to this mission – and NVQLink provides the critical technology to unite world-class GPU supercomputers with emerging quantum processors, creating the powerful systems we need to solve the grand scientific challenges of our time.”