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IBM COLLABORATES ACROSS FOUR NATIONAL QUANTUM INNOVATION CENTRES TO HELP DRIVE THE FUTURE OF QUANTUM- CENTRIC SUPERCOMPUTING
IBM has announced its collaboration with four of the US Department of Energy’ s National Quantum Information Science Research Centers to advance the development of quantum-centric supercomputing and strengthen America’ s leadership in quantum technology.
The United States Department of Energy( DoE) has announced the continued funding of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers( NQISRCs).
IBM has applauded the DoE for continuing to promote quantum science in the United States and reaffirmed its commitment to the success of these centres and to accelerating the country’ s global leadership in quantum computing.
Under the 2018 National Quantum Initiative Act, the DoE authorised up to US $ 625 million to establish five quantum information science centres to promote research into quantum computing. This law funded the five NQISRCs, of which IBM is now a member of four. In collaboration with these centres, IBM has been working to realise a vision for the future of computing: quantum-centric supercomputing.
Quantum-centric supercomputing( QCSC) is a compute paradigm that uses different compute capabilities – CPUs, GPUs and QPUs – in a tightlycoupled architecture to optimise performance beyond any hardware alone. Realising a quantum-centric supercomputer means building not just a scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer but also the software and infrastructure required to integrate quantum into the overarching QCSC compute fabric.
Furthermore, the full promise of a quantum technological revolution will lie in unifying QCSC with other critical quantum technology pillars: quantum sensing and quantum communication. Integrating these pillars could help realise a future quantum
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