IonQ to deploy Superion 256 quantum computing system at Nvidia’s NVAQC facility

IonQ, a global provider of integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security, has announced that it will deploy its Superion 256 system at the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center (NVAQC). It will be the first on-premise quantum computing deployment at the facility, and the installation is scheduled for next year.

In a press release, IonQ said that the joint research program will focus on hybrid software development and large-scale system prototyping, generating open results and a guide for future AI use cases and quantum-GPU co-design.

It further said that as part of the partnership, the Superion 256 system installed at the NVAQC will be directly linked with an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system via NVIDIA NVQLink, with workloads orchestrated by the open NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform. The NVAQC is designed to address the fundamental challenges of scaling quantum processors into a new class of accelerated quantum supercomputers. Connecting IonQ’s full-stack quantum systems directly with NVIDIA AI infrastructure aims to help drive the new breakthroughs needed to turn qubits into useful, large-scale quantum supercomputers capable of solving the world’s hardest problems.