Announced at its GTC event in Washington, the system will be used across 17 quantum hardware builders and nine national laboratories, including Brookhaven, Fermi, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, MIT Lincoln, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest and Sandia. The technology aims to create a bridge between traditional supercomputing and emerging quantum systems.
Qubits, the fragile quantum units that process information in ways no classical chip can, need constant calibration and error correction. Nvidia claims NVQLink provides the ultra-low latency and high bandwidth required for these control algorithms, making it possible to scale large-scale quantum computing systems.
Nvidia supreme dalek Jensen Huang said: “In the near future, every NVIDIA GPU scientific supercomputer will be hybrid, tightly coupled with quantum processors to expand what is possible with computing. 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.”
The US Department of Energy and its national laboratories will use NVQLink to push new frontiers in quantum computing.
US energy secretary, Chris Wright said: “Maintaining America’s leadership in high-performance computing requires us to build the bridge to the next era of computing: accelerated quantum supercomputing. The deep collaboration between our national laboratories, startups and industry partners like NVIDIA is central to this mission and NVIDIA 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.”
Nvidia says NVQLink unites various quantum processors and control systems into a single, unified environment linked to AI supercomputing. It supports hybrid research in chemistry, materials science and quantum error correction.
The technology is integrated with Nvidia’s CUDA-Q software, enabling researchers to develop and test hybrid quantum-classical applications using CPUs, GPUs and quantum processors together.
Partners involved in NVQLink include Alice & Bob, Anyon Computing, Atom Computing, Diraq, Infleqtion, IonQ, IQM Quantum Computers, ORCA Computing, Oxford Quantum Circuits, Pasqal, Quandela, Quantinuum, Quantum Circuits, Quantum Machines, Quantum Motion, QuEra, Rigetti, SEEQC and Silicon Quantum Computing. Quantum control system specialists Keysight Technologies, Qblox, QubiC, Quantum Machines and Zurich Instruments are also on board.
NVQLink marks Nvidia’s latest move to extend its dominance in accelerated computing into the quantum realm. The company insists the technology will provide the foundation for future hybrid supercomputers capable of tackling everything from drug design to nuclear simulation.
