IonQ Takes Quantum Computing to NVIDIA's Research Center: What's Next?

IonQ IONQ is set to become the first company to deploy an on-premise quantum computing system at NVIDIA’sAccelerated Quantum Research Center (“NVAQC”). The facility is designed to address key challenges in scaling quantum processors into a new class of accelerated quantum supercomputers.

IonQ’s full-stack quantum systems will be connected directly to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure to advance qubits into useful, large-scale quantum supercomputers. The integration is expected to help tackle some of the world’s complex problems. Under the partnership, IonQ’s Superion 256 system will be installed at NVAQC and linked directly to NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 system through NVQLink. The workloads will be orchestrated through NVIDIA’s open CUDA-Q platform. The joint research effort will center on hybrid software development and large-scale system prototyping, producing open results and guidance for future AI applications and quantum-GPU co-design.

Superion 256 was introduced earlier this month and is the first in the Superion platform that all future compute products are expected to be built on. The platform scales from 256 qubits to millions of qubits, with every generation that follows Superion 256 expanding use of the same ions, the same qubits, the same electronic control and the same chip fabric. Installation at NVAQC is scheduled for next year.