NVIDIA Expands Open Source CUDA-Q Platform

Insider Brief

• NVIDIA introduced CUDA-Q Logical, an open-source orchestration layer for designing and testing applications for fault-tolerant quantum computers.
• Iceberg Quantum used the platform to model 1,000 logical qubits with 150,000 physical qubits, about 10 times fewer than Diraq’s previous estimate.
• Fermilab cut the time needed to evaluate fault-tolerant system designs from about five months to three weeks, while Sandia made its QUOPS benchmarking tool available through CUDA-Q.

PRESS RELEASE — NVIDIA today announced an expansion of the NVIDIA CUDA-Q™ open source platform with CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer that provides a programmable, verifiable approach to developing useful applications for fault-tolerant quantum computers. 

Fault-tolerant quantum processors with logical qubits are essential for useful quantum computing, allowing systems to overcome the errors inherent in physical qubits so they can execute the larger computations needed for practical applications such as drug discovery, financial modeling and materials development. 

However, developing applications for such systems is a tedious, time-consuming codesign challenge: A change to an algorithm, error-correction code, hardware architecture or other QPU component can significantly change the resources needed to run any given application.