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This breakthrough demonstrates how classical supercomputing infrastructure can effectively simulate fault-tolerant quantum processors, significantly reducing the physical qubit overhead required for practical applications. By validating magic state cultivation under realistic noise conditions on an exascale system, this work provides a critical pathway toward scaling up viable quantum hardware for complex tasks like drug discovery.
NVIDIA’s Record simulation of a 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer

NVIDIA researchers ran a record 104-qubit simulation of fault-tolerant quantum computing on JUPITER, the largest supercomputer in Europe built at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. This is the largest comprehensive simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum processor to date, validating an approach using 90% fewer physical qubits than previous methods.
NVIDIA researchers have completed the largest comprehensive simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum processor to date, running a 104-qubit system on JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The simulation validates a quantum computing approach that requires 90% fewer physical qubits than previous methods, potentially accelerating the development…
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