NVIDIA opens CUDA-Q platform to test fault-tolerant quantum applications

Fermilab accelerated development of fault-tolerant quantum architectures from five months to three weeks, a sevenfold speedup, using NVIDIA’s newly expanded CUDA-Q platform. The company has added CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer designed to simplify the complex codesign process of building applications for fault-tolerant quantum computers, NVIDIA says. This open, programmable system allows researchers to rapidly test different configurations for performance with logical qubits, helping to overcome errors in physical qubits and enabling practical applications like drug discovery and materials development. “Quantum computing is maturing into an era of logical qubits,” said Timothy Costa, vice president and general manager of quantum at NVIDIA, “and researchers need an open, customizable platform capable of representing all aspects of a fault-tolerant system.” Iceberg Quantum used CUDA-Q Logical to refine its fault-tolerant…